Correspondence

We are reproducing a letter sent to us from Dr. Bolterauer, giving us some more information about the August Aichhorn Gesellschaft:

“We understand from Dr. Bibring that she has told you about the foundation of the August Aichhorn Gesellschaft and she thinks that you might like to have some further particulars about the aims and present program of the society.

Friends and pupils of Aichhorn decided to continue the pioneering work of this great Austrian educationalist who was the first to grasp the bearing of psychoanalysis on the treatment of wayward and maladjusted children and adolescents and to lay the basis for modern research work and therapy in this field.

We are glad to inform you that this newly founded society already has 70 members, among them representatives of the Austrian Ministry of Education and of the Welfare Services as well as members of the Psychoanalytic Society. It is the aim of this society to continue and expand the research and therapeutic work of the Institute for emotionally disturbed children, which was founded by Aichhorn. The treatment of children is based on a differential approach according to age and symptoms. Our aim is research on the symptomatology of delinquency which Aichhorn considered essential for the treatment of emotionally disturbed and maladjusted children and youths.

For the winter term the society has the following program:

A counselling and treatment centre for high school pupils in cooperation with the Padagogisches Institut der Stadt Wien, combined with a study group for selected teachers delegated from each high school to introduce them to some fundamental knowledge about difficulties of behaviour and emotional development.

The seminar for social workers originally started by Aichhorn himself is being continued. A training program for play-therapists is under consideration. Two series of lectures open to the general public, one concerned with educational questions, the other with analytic therapy, are given.

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