News and Proceedings of Affiliate Societies and Institutes

Correspondent: Alvin H. Polatin; Newly Elected Members: Louise J. Coleman, H. Daniel DeWitt, Alvin M. Shapiro; Resignation: John A. Cook.

The new BULLETIN of the Association made its first appearance in the Fall of 1961.

The Annual Sandor Rado Lecture will be given this year by Dr. Edith Weigert, Director Emeritus of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, on Friday evening and Saturday morning, April 6 and 7, 1962, at the Columbia University Men's Faculty Club, 117 Street and Morningside Drive, New York City. A cordial invitation is extended to all members of the American Psychoanalytic Association, students and faculty of member institutes. Dr. Weigert's topic will be "Goals in Psychoanalysis."

The fifth annual Research Seminars in Psychoanalytic Medicine, attended by advanced candidates, graduates, and members of the faculty, will bring the following investigators to the Clinic for discussion of their current research: Ray L. Birdwhistell, "Problems in the Analysis of Communication Patterns"; Alexander H. Leighton, "Social Cause and Psychiatric Disorder"; William C. Dement, "Experimental Approaches to Dreaming and Dream Deprivation"; Herbert Hendin, "Suicide Motivation: Cross-cultural Approach"; Earl Nash, "Research in Outpatient Psychotherapy"; Herbert Witkin, "Early Life Experience and the Development of Cognitive Style"; Frederic T. Kapp, "A Technique for Self-analysis of Countertransference"; Herbert G. Birch, "Animal Investigations and Psychodynamic Hypotheses"; Rhona Rapaport, "Normal Crises, Family Structure and Mental Health"; Therese Benedek, "Research on the Female Sexual Cycle"; Edith Weigert, "Goals in Psychoanalysis"; Robert R. Holt, "Empirical Research on the Primary Process"; Harry F. Harlow, "Effects of Early Experience on the Heterosexual and Maternal Behavior of Monkeys"; I. Arthur Mirsky, "Studies on Nonverbal Communication in Monkeys"; George L. Engel