Indian Psycho-Analytical Society

February 9, 1930. Dr. Sarasilal Sarkar: 'Hindu Mythological Story throwing Light on the Psychology of Phallic Worship'. The writer sought to shew the passing away of Oedipus Complex and the formation of superego from the psycho-analytical interpretation of the story and quoted authorities in his support.

August 17, 1930. Dr. Suhrit Chandra Mitra: 'Psychology and Psycho-analysis'.

August 24, 1930. Dr. G. Bose: 'A New Technique of Psycho-analysis'. The

technique was often employed by him with success. In contrast with active therapy and the forced phantasy method of Ferenczi, the method has the following salient features. In suitable cases the patient is first asked to give his free association to determine the nature of the repressed with active at the time. He is then ordered to build up wish-fulfilment and fantasies with reference to this repressed wish, alternately taking up the rôles of the subject and the object in the wish-situations.

Dr. Bose claimed that by this method a rapid resolution of the patient's conflict took place. The saving of time was marked.

August 31, 1930. Dr. G. Bose: 'Periodic Depression' (with illustrations from twenty-two case reports).

The writer pleaded for the separation of this group of cases from obsessional psychoneuroses on the one hand and manic depressive psychoses on the other. The cases were in the borderland, as it were, between psychoses and psychoneuroses. The usual symptomatology consisted in the appearance of depression marked by worry, chiefly with reference to monetary matters, and a loss of interest in the ordinary activities of life. Enjoyment of pleasure in any situation was an impossibility with these patients. The depression continued for varying periods in different cases and then completely disappeared, resulting in an apparent cure, only to return after a few months or years. In contrast with typical cases of manic depressive psychoses there were no periods of excitement or exaltation. As anxi