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At Whitsuntide, June 8–10, 1935, a Joint Conference was held in Vienna for members of the Hungarian, Vienna and the Italian Psycho-Analytical Societies and the Czecho-Slovakian Study Group.
The two last do not belong to the International Psycho-Analytical Association, but the Czecho-Slovakian Group is affiliated to the Vienna Society as a Study Group. The Italian Psycho-Analytical Society is an entirely independent organization, though four of its members belong to the Vienna Society and more than one of these has so belonged for more than ten years. The Conference was open not only to the members of the four Societies which convened it but to all members of the Branch Societies of the I.P.A. and to any guests introduced by the Presidents.
The programme was as follows:
Saturday, June 8, 1935:
8 p.m. Reception.
9.15 p.m. Business Meeting (for members of the Branch Societies of the I.P.A. only). Subject for discussion: 'Training-Analysis and Control-Analyses'. The Chair was taken by Dr. Paul Federn.
Dr. Paul Federn welcomed the members of the Congress. A telegram of greeting from the President of the I.P.A., Dr. Ernest Jones, was read and also a letter from Dr. Helene Deutsch, in which she regretted her inability to be present an account of ill-health and wished success to the Conference.
Dr. Imre Hermann then opened the discussion with a paper which embodied the views of some of the training analysts in the Hungarian Society on the subject of training. Anna Freud then read Dr. Helene Deutsch's paper on the principles and practice of the Vienna Society in that connection. A very lively discussion followed.
Sunday, June 9, 1935:
9 a.m. First Scientific Symposium. Dr. István Hollós took the Chair. Subject for discussion: 'The Death-Instinct and Masochism'.