Annual Reports

In the past year the Association continued to fulfill its various organizational aims.

To advance psychoanalysis, papers of wide interest were presented at meetings held at the New York Academy of Medicine. The increasing addition of guest speakers working within other frames of reference enhanced the value of this activity. At meetings limited to the membership and the candidates of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, original contributions were made by candidates and members which aroused lively discussions.

The significant annual event—the Annual Karen Horney Lecture—was presented at the New York Academy of Medicine on March 28, 1956. It was preceded by a dinner in honor of the guest speaker, Dr. Frederick H. Allen. The attendance, and the response, indicated the importance of this event and the pleasure with the paper, which gave adequate acknowledgement to Horney's contributions to psychiatry.

This year the Association presented a Round Table discussion on “What Is Effective in the Therapeutic Process?” at the meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago. The members of the panel from the Association included Dr. Bella S. Van Bark, moderator; Drs. Louis E. DeRosis, Elizabeth Kilpatrick and Frederick A. Weiss. The outside participants were: Drs. Silvano Arieti, Marianne Horney Eckardt, Leslie Farber and Lewis Wolberg. This event was exceedingly well attended and aroused considerable interest in the audience. Members of the Association have lectured widely at medical groups within and without New York City.

The Association continues to publish two issues a year of the “American Journal of Psychoanalysis” and has considerably increased its circulation. The article by Dr. Harold Kelman, “Psychoanalysis and Science,” was translated into Spanish and published in Madrid in Revista de Psicologia, General y Aplicada (Vol. 10, No. 33, .) Dr. Alexander R. Martin has contributed a chapter to the volume,