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The American Psycho-Analytic Association held its thirty-fifth meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 28, 1935.
At the business meeting, called to order by Dr. A. A. Brill, a new Constitution, acceptable to the Boston Psycho-Analytic Society, the Chicago Psycho-Analytic Society, the New York Psycho-Analytic Society and the Washington-Baltimore Psycho-Analytic Society (the local societies federated in the Association) was adopted.
The following officers were elected by unanimous approval: A. A. Brill, M.D. (New York), Honorary President; C. P. Oberndorf, M.D. (New York), President; Isador H. Coriat, M.D. (Boston), Vice-President; Ernest E. Hadley, M.D. (Washington), Secretary (re-election); Leo H. Bartemeier, M.D. (Detroit), Treasurer.
Under the new Constitution each Society will elect a representative to the Executive Council and three representatives to the Council on Professional Training.
'Humour and Hypomania', by Isador H. Coriat, M.D. (Boston). Humour, which may develop as a phase of a positive transference-situation during an analysis, resembles a transitory hypomania. The principal features of the hypomania during this phase are characteristic of hypomania in general. Humour as a form of liberation and reaction-formation from a strict super-ego. Relationships between humour and hypomania from the standpoint of analytic psychiatry. The super-ego as a parental pattern of authority: the degree of humour varies according to the strictness of the super-ego. Alteration in the ego-reactions during analysis, its relation to transference and the Oedipus complex, resulting in a triumph of the pleasure-principle of the mental apparatus, thereby producing humour as a form of transitory hypomania. Mechanisms of hypomania, depression and humour from the dynamic standpoint. Humour may be a transition between hypomania and depression. The sense of humour may have a therapeutic effect in lessening the severity of a psychoneurosis, particular