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The Association continued to grow. Ten new associate members and four full members were elected. On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Dr. Kurt Goldstein was elected as the first honorary member in appreciation of the contribution his holistic concept of human nature has made to the advancement of psychoanalysis.
The newly created Karen Horney Award aroused great interest among psychiatrists and psychoanalysts in the United States and overseas. The first Karen Horney Award was presented to Dr. Thomas Hora for his paper, “Ontic Perspectives in Psychoanalysis,” on the occasion of the Karen Horney Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine.
The Seventh Karen Horney Lecture, preceded by a dinner, was given by Dr. Leo Kanner on “Centripetal Forces in Personality Development.” The Academy Lectures reflected recent developments, including the influence of existentialist and holistic thought on psychoanalysis. The Interval meetings served the clarification of our own position regarding theoretical and clinical aspects of psychoanalysis.
During the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, our Association, in cooperation with the Karen Horney Clinic, arranged a Round Table on “Variations in the Dynamics of the Analytic Relationship in Clinic and Private Practice.” Dr. Frederick Weiss was the moderator. The panelists were Drs. Camilla Anderson, Louis Azorin, Nathan Freeman, Louis Hott, Arnold Pfeffer, Bella Van Bark, and Earl Witenberg. Representatives of various psychoanalytic clinics discussed the ways in which the clinic setting, as reality and as symbol, affect the patient, the therapist, and the relationship.
Four members of the Association—Drs.
Benjamin Becker, Harold Kelman, Frederick Weiss and Antonia Wenkart—presented papers at the IVth International Congress of Psychotherapy, in Barcelona, the main theme of which was “Psychotherapy and Existential Analysis.”
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis extended its circulation in the United States and in man