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Dr. Martin Grotjahn informs us that the Society for Psychoanalytic Medicine of Southern California had several scientific meetings in the last three months. During the first one on January 3, 1952, Drs. May Romm, Milton Miller and Philip Solomon reported about the meeting of the A. P. A. in New York, December 6-8, 1951.
On the 7th of February, 1952, Dr. Joseph Weckler, Head of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Southern California, read a paper entitled “Cultural Reality and Personality Dynamics.”
On February 20, Dr. Philip R. Lehrman of New York was a visitor in Los Angeles and showed his “Film of Professor Sigmund Freud, His Family and Colleagues in Vienna, Berlin and Paris, 1928-1929” and gave historical comments to this documentary movie.
A symposium on psychotherapy in psychosomatic disorders was presented on November 16th in Los Angeles. The program was under the joint sponsorship of the Psychosomatic Forum of Los Angeles and the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic under the chairmanship of Dr. Samuel Futterman. The Psychosomatic Forum was organized recently by Dr. Louis Paul and Dr. Alfred Coodley, under the aegis of the American Psychosomatic Society in order to stimulate interest and research in this field.
Dr. Alexander Rogawski delivered a paper on “Psychotherapy in a Case of Neurodermatitis” in which the successful psychoanalytic treatment of a seriously neurotic and long-standing dermatologic illness was detailed. Dr. Milton Miller discussed the paper outlining some of the frequently found psychodynamic patterns in such cases, i.e., masochistic self-absorption, exhibitionism, weeping with fear and rage at frustration of competitive attitudes, etc. Dr. M. Robert Harris spoke on “A Case of Ulcerative Colitis” and a discussion from the gastroenterologist's viewpoint by Dr. Lester Morrison followed. The final presentation of the symposium was a “Review of the psychodynamics and psychotherapy of hypertension” by Dr. Sig