Candidates Association

During the academic year 1958-1959, the Candidates Association of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis held four membership meetings. It was decided at the beginning of the year to group all our meetings around the theme of treatment. As a result, we had a series of interesting, related topics. The first was on “Transference Problems in the Treatment of Adolescents,” by Alexandra Symonds. The second was “Treatment of the Family.” Dr. Nathan Ackerman interviewed an entire family of three generations in our presence, and discussed his methods and findings later. The third meeting was on the subject of “Problems in the Treatment of Schizophrenics”; the speaker, Dr. Silvano Arieti. He presented many of his original ideas and practical experiences. The last topic was “The Initial Interview,” with Dr. Morton Cantor and Dr. Joseph Vollmerhausen. This was our annual open meeting and we had as our guests psychiatric residents from St. Vincent's Hospital and the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. The interest and participation in all of our meetings indicated that the concept of a united theme can be developed further with excellent results. The Bulletin continued under the capable editorship