Annual Meetings—May, 1961

The Annual Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association were held at the Palmer House in Chicago, May 5-8, 1961. Abstracts of the Minutes of the Executive Council, Board on Professional Standards, and the Business Meeting of Members are published in this issue of the Bulletin. All members who desire to obtain copies of the official Minutes may do so by communicating with the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Helen Fischer, 1 East 57 Street, New York 22, N. Y.

The meeting of the Executive Council was held Thursday, May 4, 1961, at the Palmer House, Chicago, with Jacob A. Arlow presiding and David Beres serving as Secretary.

I. Vote on Affiliate Societies

An error in procedure at the Meeting of the Executive Council on December 8, 1960, was brought to the attention of the Executive Council by the Secretary. According to the By-Laws, Article 8, Section 3, the approval by Executive Council of a group seeking affiliation with the American Psychoanalytic Association must be submitted to the members at the Annual Meeting, and such decision ratified at such meeting. Since the Western New York Psychoanalytic Society and the Westchester Psychoanalytic Society were elected to affiliation at a fall meeting, it was therefore necessary to repeat the voting procedure at this Annual Meeting to accomplish the affiliation of these two societies. The Executive Council voted unanimously to accept as affiliate societies of the American Psychoanalytic Association the Western New York Psychoanalytic Society and the Westchester Psychoanalytic Society.

II. Fact-Gathering Committee

The Secretary reported that the problem of further use of the material gathered by the Fact-Gathering Committee was again discussed by the Executive Committee at its meeting on May 3. In recent years an increasing interest among members of the American Psychoanalytic Association in research problems concerned with assessment of change in individuals who have been psychoanalyzed