Annual Meeting—May, 1969

The 56th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held at the Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, May 2-5, 1969. An abstract of the Minutes of the Business Meeting of Members, including the reports of the Secretary of the Executive Council and of the Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards, as well as all other transactions are published in this issue of the Bulletin. Members who desire to obtain copies of the official Minutes of any of these bodies may do so by communicating with the Executive Secretary, Mrs. Helen Fischer, One East 57 Street, New York, N.Y. 10022.

The Business Meeting of Members was held at the Deauville Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida on Sunday, May 4, 1969, with Dr. Samuel Ritvo, the outgoing President and Dr. Royden Astley, the incoming President, presiding. Dr. Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin was outgoing Secretary and Dr. Burness E. Moore the new Secretary of the Association. The Minutes of the December, 1968 Meeting were adopted as distributed. In turning over the meeting to Dr. Royden Astley, incoming President, Dr. Ritvo commented on his two years in office. He pointed out that the preceding two years had been turbulent ones in the Association but that the present meeting was a turning point back to a more productive and constructive atmosphere. He discussed several presentations made at the present meeting, which were constructively critical of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic education and contained suggestions for changes and improvements. He cited the report delivered by the outgoing Chairman of the Committee on Institutes to the Board, which synthesized twelve years of experience on the Committee, and the presentation made earlier in the morning by Dr. Robert Bak, which concerned psychoanalytic education and made suggestions concerning places where effective changes might be instituted. Dr. Ritvo also discussed the Report of the Committee