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[Ed. Note: The Committee on Institutes under the Chairmanship of Dr. Edward Bibring presented a report before the Board on Professional Standards at the midwinter meetings. We asked Dr. Bibring for permission to publish this report since it represents certain principles by which the Committee on Institutes is guided and would therefore be of great interest to the membership. We are reproducing his report as it was sent to us.]
The members of the Committee on Institutes felt that a heavy responsibility was placed on them, especially since the task is a new one. This means that rules had to be established and experience accumulated. Thus we have had to proceed relatively slowly; after the establishment of a certain routine we shall be able to work more expeditiously.
Today we would like to present to you for discussion certain principal considerations expressed by various members of our Association with whom we discussed the applications, partly personally and partly by correspondence. Since we must consider this a confidential matter, we shall not quote any names, but give you an abstract of the most pertinent opinions. The Committee felt that it might be wiser to have the principle points clarified before making any specific recommendations. The second reason is that there exists a committee, appointed in Montreal with Dr. Bandler as chairman whose function it is to study the relations of the Psychoanalytic Societies and Institutes to the United States Public Health Service (National Institute of Mental Health) in Washington. This also includes to some extent the problems of a closer relation between psychoanalytic institutes and psychiatric departments of medical schools. It seemed wise to await the report of this committee in order to utilize it for our recommendations and decisions.
Certain questions of principle arising from consideration of these applications must be clarified before the application can be dealt with in a practical way. The first refers