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October 7, 1931. Dr. Glover: 'The Etiology of Drug Addiction'. (To be published in this JOURNAL.)
October 21, 1931. Dr. Lionel Penrose: 'Recent psycho-analytical Research in the Psychoses'. A review of work done in the period 1926—1931; the necessity for unification of certain aspects of Freud's theoretical work; a survey of the results of analytical therapy in the psychoses; experimental therapeutics and new technical devices. The use of psycho-analytical theory in the classification of the psychoses; in regard to the question of fixation, the development of the libido is not a lineal series; doubtful whether a satisfactory classification possible in the present state of psycho-analytical theory.
November 4, 1931. Short communications:
1Miss Searl: 'A Note on Depersonalization'. A study of four cases of partial depersonalization; importance of inanimate objects; exchange of part of the 'real' personality for that of some object present in the traumatic situation; a hold on the reality of things keeps paranoid mechanisms in check, since inanimate objects remain stationary and unaggressive; mental life may originally derive from the wish to possess part of the body not subject to danger of loss or damage.
2Miss Barbara Low: 'Observations on Depersonalization'. In one case the patient either becomes a disappearing entity whilst his environment swells to huge dimensions or becomes himself monstrously swollen whilst his surroundings dwindle: in first instance factor of fear connected with sexual attack: in second, fear replaced by hostility. In another case patient feels himself an empty shell into which a great force enters: compulsion to re-enact the primal scene as a vision.
November 18, 1931. Miss Sharpe: 'Fetishism and Art'. A case in which an intimate connection existed between the perversion and a sublimation in art; sight of the perfect shoe allayed the anxiety aroused by the sight of the 'castrated' mother.