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Dr. Ruth W. Lidz reports that there have been considerable changes in Baltimore. Dr. Lewis B. Hill has been appointed as Psychiatrist-in-Chief to the Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital. He will be in charge of the treatment of patients at Sheppard-Pratt and will supervise the work of physicians in training there. He will carry on his appointment as Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University as well as teaching at the University of Maryland. The exact nature of the latter has not been established since Dr. Finestinger, who has been appointed as Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, will not be in full time attendance until after January 1st. In view of his new assignments, Dr. Hill's teaching at the Institute will be somewhat curtailed. He has can-celled his teaching in the Washington group of the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute but will continue teaching in Baltimore and will carry a limited amount of supervisory work and teaching analyses. At the last meeting of the Education Committee on October 13, Dr. Hill resigned from his position as Director of the Institute and no successor has yet been appointed.
On September 24, Dr. Samuel Novey gave his membership paper before the Society on “A Problem in Technique Related to the Neurotic Usage of a Social Institution.”
The Baltimore Division of the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute has started a school year with 8 new registrants and I transfer from Paris to candidate status.
Dr. Douglas Noble, our Washington correspondent, reports that the low cost treatment plan known as the Community Psychoanalytic Service is making headway. Dr. Dyar, Director of the program, reports that several problems have arisen thus far which might be of interest to others who are contemplating such plans.
Patients applying to the service are often too seriously ill for treatment by students. Frequently very severe
schizoid character disorders and borderline schiz