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The history of this organization is one of creative effort. It operates on principles which are dynamic not static. If we accept the tenet that psychoanalysis helps everyone to live his own life more honestly and surely and so to be a more effective unit in the progress of humanity, then we can take no exception to the goals set forth and must agree that we too have a stake in their successful prosecution.
In the last quarter of a century psychiatry has played an increasingly important role in all aspects of our personal and socio-economic life. The demands being made on psychiatry by individuals, industrialists, educators, physicians, social workers, to name only a few, are far in excess of the resources and personnel now available.
Educators today are more determinedly interesting themselves with factors having to do with the development of the personality rather than with the established and rigid techniques which formerly guided their efforts. But to advance new methods and to secure greater understanding they need not only encouragement and endorsement but practical advice and training. Business is turning to psychiatry for help in personnel selection and placement and is seeking counsel in meeting the problems of absenteeism and industrial turnover which is costly not only to management and the worker but ultimately to the consumer. Parents too, many of whom are not emotionally equipped to assume the difficult and specialized tasks of child rearing, will have to depend more and more on the school and other outside agencies unless measures are taken to meet some of the needs of parental training. The pre-school child who must be left in day nurseries by the working