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Dear Members of The American Psychoanalytic Association:
It is with a special satisfaction that I greet you through this, our new medium, the Bulletin of The American Psychoanalytic Association.
Many months ago Ernest Hadley wrote to ask my opinion about reviving the Bulletin, an idea to which I subscribed heartily. I solicited many of our members, almost all of whom were very sympathetic, and the idea was approved at the last Council Meeting in December.
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Doctor Frosch and his editorial staff for undertaking the editorship, and I urgently request every Society, Institute, and member to cooperate with them to the fullest extent.
It is our hope that through the Bulletin we may learn to know each other better. It is extremely desirable that we become better acquainted with what is happening in the constituent Societies and in the different Institutes. Unfortunately, there is no opportunity for most of us to visit each other's places of activity, and I, personally, feel very sure that some of the misunderstanding which has occurred in the past arose in part from lack of means of intercommunication.
Along with the re-issuance of the Bulletin, I hope other important progress can be made in our Association. At the Executive Session it was unanimously agreed that we would try the experiment of having some standing committees of the Association in areas of applied psychoanalysis. Many members have communicated to me their interest in the application of psychoanalysis to various fields such as literature, art, academic education, political science, etc. These committees will be drawn up with an opportunity for everyone to participate who cares to do so. It is my hope that many of our members will take part. Every Society might plan to be represented on every committee.
Elsewhere in the Bulletin are abstracts of the minutes of the