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The official Bulletin of the International Psycho-Analytical Association is published, following the 29th Congress in London, as is customary, in the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in English, but also in other languages in psychoanalytic journals, the list of which was read during the Business Meeting, following the adoption of the amendments to the Constitution and Byelaws. It follows that the latter will therefore be published in the four official languages of the I.P.A., and although the English version remains the reference text, the other language versions can be used in our Component Societies.
With the help of our Executive Council, I have, as you know, tried to improve the exchanges within the I.P.A. We must also find a common language and objectives with which we can all identify, as guardians of an identity which is perhaps more difficult to define now than when the position of psychoanalysis was only marginal in society and in the Human Sciences.
This is one reason why a Symposium will be held in the vicinity of London at the beginning of 1976, gathering together the members of the Executive Council and the members of the various Committees for the next Congress. It will be devoted to a scientific discussion on The Identity of the Psychoanalyst. I hope that the results will be sufficiently rich to be the subject of a publication of the I.P.A.
The situation of psychoanalysis in the world is the subject of the report of our Secretary, Professor Daniel Widlöcher. The apparent success of psychoanalysis should not mislead us, since it also carries with it possible confusions, since so many psychotherapies and so many researchers make a claim to Freud's works.
The adoption of the amendments to our Constitution and Byelaws by the Business Meeting must be understood within this context: it shows that a substantial majority of our colleagues understood very well that the methods used in the training of psychoanalysts must be a matter for reciprocal in