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Anita Bell (U.S.A.) 'Some Thoughts on Postpartum Experiences and their Relationship to Pregenital Mastery, Particularly in Asthmatics.'
An attempt to study the earliest mastery activities beginning with post-partum respiration, and continuing through the pregenital phases. A comparison of a severe asthmatic (analytic material) with a longitudinal study of an asthmatically predisposed child is made from the viewpoint of pregenital mastery experiences and their influence on the utilization of aggressive energy.
W. B. Bion (Great Britain). 'Arrogance.'
In this paper I propose to show some features of the relationship between arrogance, curiosity and stupidity. In particular, the bearing of arrogance on the patient's capacity for development in early pre-oedipal situations will be discussed together with its significance for the analytical approach.
Abram Blau, M.D. (New York). 'Benign Schizophrenia.'
The thesis is presented that benign schizophrenia is a universal ego defence process found varyingly from infancy throughout life. It occurs as benign transitory episodes and as isolated character traits short of a malignant process. Its basic nature is immaturity of thinking due to arrest, regression, or breakdown of ego structure, with a distortion of the individual's relation to reality. Schizophrenia is considered the only functional psychotic process. The morbid forms can be classified into infantile, child, and adult types with secondary symptomatic subtypes. This dynamic view of schizophrenia serves to detoxify the concept of functional psychoses and offers significant implications for normal development, classification, differential diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. The early mother-infant relationship is the foundation for a well integrated ego, and therein lies the sensitization or immunization to psychotic reactions. Illustrative clinical cases in children, adolescents, and adults are presented.
Gustav Bychowski, M.D. (New York). 'The Struggle against