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The following letter has been received as a comment on the 'Communication from the President about the Neoanalytic Movement' which appeared in the 120th Bulletin of the Association. It is published with the concurrence of the officers and members of the Central Executive.
Dr Gitelson has advised the Editor of the Bulletin that there was one error of fact in his Communication: the Academy of Psychoanalysis is an American society, but it is not officially named 'American Academy of Psychoanalysis' (p. 374, first column). As to the question of sponsorship of the International Forum for Psychoanalysis, Dr Gitelson wishes to call to the attention of the membership the following note from the Newsletter of the American Psychiatric Association, 14, 5 January, 1962:
Internatl. Psa. Forum, Amsterdam, Holland, July 27–31, '62, under auspices of Acad. of Psa. and several European Psa. groups. (Write Leon Salzman, 1610 N. Hampshire Ave., Wash., D.C.).
Dr Salzman was a Trustee of the Academy for the term 1960–63.
Dr Elizabeth Zetzel, Hon. Secretary and Editor of the Bulletin,
International Psycho-Analytical Association,
63 New Cavendish Street,
London, W.1, England.
To the Editor:
Dr M. Gitelson's recent 'Communication from the President about the Neoanalytical Movement' (Int. J. Psychoanal., 43, 4–5, 1962) seems to require some correction in order to restore the balance of probity and professional dignity of your respected Bulletin. This reply is therefore addressed to your readers rather than to Dr Gitelson, who in past correspondence1 has proved to be a nebulous and eventually uninteresting protagonist inclined to evade issues by orotund sentences like this one, except that his nouns generally have no consistent meanings, and are followed six lines later by predicates that connote no tangible processes. However, in the particular 'Communication' referred to, Dr Gitelson made his allegations slightly more explicit than usual, and it is with referen