II. Reports of Proceedings of Societies

May 15, 1935. (In joint session with the Section on Psycho-Analysis of the American Psychiatric Association, at Washington, D.C.).

Dr. A. A. Brill, Chairman of the Section on Psycho-Analysis and President of the American Psycho-Analytic Association, presided.

A. A. Brill, M.D.: 'Anticipations and Corroborations of the Freudian Concepts from Non-Analytic Sources'. Although Professor Freud discovered and developed psycho-analysis as a special scientific method, he himself called attention to the fact that a number of his ideas were either anticipated by others or discovered independently of him. This is particularly true of his conceptions of the dream. Many passages and references from the classical and even modern literature have shown a marked resemblance to the Freudian concepts, but the most remarkable thing is that Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, is actually supposed to have practised psycho-analysis in the same manner as Professor Freud, through analysis of dreams and through the investigation of the individual's past life; and thus cured a royal psycho-neurotic after his opponent failed to cure him through diet and medications. An account of this cure was reported.

Clarence P. Oberndorf, M.D.: 'The Feeling of Unreality'. The feeling of unreality, found in many neuroses and mild depressions, is associated with a conflict between masculine and feminine identifications which are concerned predominantly with intellectual activity. Unreality occurs more frequently in women who have identified 'thinking' as a masculine quality. He described from clinical material a period of unreality occurring in a male during his college years and dependent on mixed identification with parents.

Bernard Glueck, M.D.: 'The Application of Psycho-Analysis to Psychiatric Problems'. In a paper presented several years ago before the Joint Meeting of the American Psycho-Analytic and the American Psychiatric Association, a preliminary re