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Edited by EDWARD BIBRING, Secretary of the I.T.C.
The Plenary Session of the I.T.C. was held in the afternoon of July 30, 1938.
In his opening remarks the Chairman, Dr. Eitingon, referred to the severe loss suffered by the I.T.C. owing to the dissolution of the Vienna Society. After the disruption of the Berlin organization, it had been hoped to build up a still stronger Training Institute in Vienna. These hopes had been shattered by the turn of events in Austria. Dr. Eitingon also referred to the absence of official representatives of American training organizations: this was in accordance with a resolution of the American Psycho-Analytic Association.
After some discussion it was resolved to leave the adjustment of relations between the American Psycho-Analytic Association and the I.T.C. in the hands of the Committee or of the Business Meeting of the International Psycho-Analytical Association.
Reports were then presented by the representatives of the various Institutes: namely, Budapest, Holland, London, Oslo, Palestine, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Switzerland and Vienna.
Dr. Eitingon next replied to a number of questions in connection with the Institutes in Austria and Germany which had been dissolved as a result of political events.
Dr. Wilhelm Hoffer next presented a report upon the instructional course for teachers at the Training Institute of the Vienna Psycho-Analytical Society. He explained that this Course of Training had been started in 1933 with the idea that those who proved to be specially well qualified should proceed to be analysed themselves and should then be combined, together with similar persons who had already been analysed, into a permanent Teachers' Group; this would then undertake the training and general organization of analytical educationists. The statistics of membership of the courses carried through up to March 1938, as well