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In the past year, the sixth since its founding, ACAAP introduced a significant addition to its program of community education. It offered four seminars dealing with the application of psychoanalytic knowledge to special problems. The topics were:
How the Clergy Can Use the Techniques of Modern Psychotherapy. Dr. Paul Lussheimer.
Dynamics of Child Development. Dr. Norman Kelman.
Personnel Problems. Dr. Sara Breitbart.
Child-Parent Problems—the Psychoanalytic Approach to Family Relationships. Dr. Norman Kelman.
Because of the sound success of these seminars, it is planned to increase the number to six next year.
This program represents a trend in the development of ACAAP. It has become clear that the membership is mainly interested in psychoanalytic education. The benefit performance of the play How I Wonder sponsored by ACAAP on November 10, 1947, was only moderately successful. In the year ahead, ACAAP will concentrate on its lectures, discussions, seminars, and distribution of psychoanalytic literature.
The president's monthly letter was introduced as a method of keeping the membership better informed. This informal letter, which is distributed along with the monthly lecture summary, proved an effective and interesting medium for ACAAP news and announcements.
Another innovation was the insitution of orientation meetings at which new members are given a clear picture of the functions and purposes of ACAAP, have an opportunity to become acquainted with old members and to become associated with various committees. Attendance at these meetings remained high, as did the calibre of the discussion led, each time, by three analysts from the Institute.
There was an increased demand for the services of the lecture bureau. By arrangement with the bureau, analysts from the Institute addressed a diversity of groups on psychoanalytic topics. Before each of these lectures, a brief talk on the scope and purpose of the organization was given by an ACAAP member.