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Herbert S. Gaskill, the Chairman, traced the development of the Conference on Psychoanalytic Education and Research. The stated goal was to reassess and give perspective to our field, to look to the future, and to update the previous overview of Lewin and Ross.1 Nine general areas involving special concerns of the Association were identified, and a preparatory commission assigned to each of these areas. They consisted of: I. The Tripartite System of Psychoanalytic Education; II. The Ideal Institute; III. Age and the Psychoanalytic Career; IV. The Relationship of Psychoanalysis to Universities; V. The Relationship of Psychoanalysis to Current Changes in Medical and Psychiatric Education; VI. Psychoanalytic Education and the Allied Disciplines; VII. Psychoanalytic Research; VIII. The Relationship of Psychoanalysis to Social and Community Issues; and IX. Child Analysis.
These commissions, consisting of a Chairperson and Recorder and fourteen to seventeen members, worked independently over a two-year period, often with subcommittee reports and multiple position papers, before the eventual preparatory commission reports were written. The completed nine commission reports were then circulated to all COPER members for study prior to the actual