I feel very honored to have been asked to call to order and to open this scientific portion of the Meeting of the West Coast Psychoanalytic Societies. It is exactly twenty years since I was part of that large wave—that migration of young psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and mainly psychoanalysts-in-the-making, who shed their Army uniforms and came to this West Coast eager to plunge into live and work in this most attractive area of our country. It was not long afterward that I attended my first West Coast Psychoanalytic Meeting—and, along with many others of you, had the feeling from that time on that we had moved and settled not in Los Angeles or San Francisco or Seattle, but in the whole area in between. We were to live literally on the West Coast, which we would forever come to feel as part of our surround. This is not known to one who lives in a city on the Eastern seaboard. And the common bond, the common possession which held us all together and which we all shared in holding and shaping, was an exciting relationship to the science of