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The meeting was organized by the Dutch Psycho-Analytical Society. Immediately after the liberation the Society realized the necessity of contact with the colleagues in other European countries in order to get information of the conditions obtaining there. This plan was soon found to meet with ready acceptance and it was decided to organize an unofficial meeting of European psycho-analysts.
Eighty-nine psycho-analysts from various countries of Europe, viz. England, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Switzerland, met in Amsterdam during the Whitsun-week. It was regretted that the colleagues from Austria, Belgium and Italy were not able to attend the meeting, while the German colleagues, owing to travelling difficulties, arrived only after the Conference, though in time to meet many foreign psycho-analysts. No replies had been received from Norwegian and Danish colleagues.
Official receptions and other festivities were limited to a minimum in view of the difficult general conditions.
The Municipal authorities of Amsterdam received and addressed the members attending the meeting on the first day. A public dinner was organized at