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December 6, 1922. Dr. A. C. Wilson gave an abstract of Ferenczi's paper on Bridge Symbolism, and then read notes of a case he was analysing in support of Ferenczi's views
January 3, 1923. Dr. Douglas Bryan gave some remarks on Sadism and Masochism. He considered that the terms Sadism and Masochism, and sadistic and masochistic impulse, should be limited to those cases in which the giving or receiving of pain associated with sexual feelings was an essential factor. He suggested that Masochism would appear to be the primary condition in virtue of abdominal pain in the infant being associated with pleasurable feelings in defecation, and that pleasure derived from giving pain to others would only be secondary to pleasure in pain perceived on oneself.
A discussion followed.
January 17, 1923. Miss Mary Chadwick, 6 Guilford Place, London, W. C. 1 was elected an Associate Member.
Dr. Mary Barkas gave an abstract of Feldmann's paper ber Erkrankungs-anlässe bei den Psychosen. After the abstract of Feldmann's paper dealing with three cases of psychoses developing on a basis of organic injury or disease and observed in statu nascendi, there followed a discussion on three points arising out of the paper, viz:—the question of the causative factors, predisposing and determining, in the psychoses, that of the relation between psychoses and neuroses,