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Dr. Robert A. Cohen, President, and Dr. Douglas Noble, Secretary Treasurer of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society, were elected Councilors of the Washington Psychiatric Society at the Annual Meeting of that Society, January 10, 1952.
The following candidates were elected to active membership in the Washington Psychoanalytic Society at the Business Meeting, January 12th: Lawrence C. Kolb, Hewitt I. Varney, Bernard A. Cruvant.
Dr. Joseph O. Chassell has resigned from the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is a member of the New York Society, and a charter member and President of the newly formed Western New England Psychoanalytic Society.
On October 26, 1951 Dr. Franz Alexander gave the first Lester McLean Memorial Lecture, entitled “Psychoanalytic Training in the Past, the Present and the Future, a Historical Review.”
This memorial lecture was instituted by the Association of Candidates of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in memory of its former president who was so tragically lost to his many friends. Dr. Alexander's lecture will be published in full. It deals with his own experiences as the first student and then teacher at the Berlin Institute, his attempt — and failure — to make psychoanalysis part of the regular medical curriculum at the University of Chicago, and the history and philosophy of the Chicago Institute.
The personal and informal account succeeded in improving communication and understanding between students and faculty, a problem which arises in every growing teaching organization.
Upon the initiation of Drs. Helen McLean, Joan Fleming, and Louis Shapiro, regular monthly seminars of all the training analysts of the Chicago area have been instituted. The aim