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The 61st Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held at the Denver Hilton Hotel, Denver, Colorado, May 1–5, 1974. An abstract of the Business Meeting Members, including reports of the Secretary of the Executive Council, the Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards, the Treasurer of the Association and the Editor of the Journal, as well as 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 57th Street, New York, New York 10022.
The Business Meeting of Members was held on Saturday, May 4, 1974 at 9:00 a.m., with Dr. Burness E. Moore, President, presiding, and Dr. Martin A. Berezin as Secretary.
Opening the Session, Dr. Moore spoke of his satisfaction with progress within the Association. He mentioned the influx within two years of approximately 600 new Affiliate and Associate members and the recently passed By-law Amendment providing for research members as a possible revitalizing influence, despite some problems. A closer liaison with the National Council of Psychoanalytic Candidates and Clinical Associates might conceivably result in its inclusion as a section of the organization to mutual advantage. Difficult and controversial issues concerning membership policies and procedures promise to be resolved by acceptance of the Kaufman Committee report at this meeting, and the Association is actively investigating the possibilities for a more acceptable form of certification of individual competence and accreditation of institutes.
The external affairs of the Association were much less satisfactory. The possibility of including psychoanalysis or even long-term psychotherapy in National Health Insurance legislation appears highly uncertain, despite the