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The 3rd Pre-Congress Conference of Candidates was held in association with the 29th International Psychoanalytical Congress in its now traditional time: the week-end preceding and the 'free' Wednesday afternoon during the Congress. The Saturday evening Welcome Reception helped to establish the first contacts amongst the 100 or so who attended. It turned out, however, that many candidates from various countries who were in London at the time were unaware of their own Conference because of the failure of information about it reaching them through the existing channels. Others could not fruitfully attend the Sunday discussions due to the unavailability of simultaneous translation. On Sunday, 20 July, three discussion groups took place concurrently:
1'Philosophical Issues in Psychoanalysis', convened by Dr G. Davies;
2'The Relation of Psychoanalysis to the "New" Therapies', convened by Ms J. Temperley; and
3'Present Student—Future Analyst', convened by Dr W. Kinston.
Attendance was full and discussion stimulating. A report on each section, as well as publication of the various papers presented will be found in the I.P.S.O. News Bulletin (Editor: Dr T. Bohm, Vikingavagen 1. 18131 Lidingo, Sweden).
Discussion 3. centred on various practical issues and became a forum for, amongst other things, exchanges of ideas about training, The meeting received requests for help from candidates from two countries. This and other matters—the difficulty students had in communicating round the world, imminent changes in the I.P.A. which students were ignorant about—led to the expression of the urgent need for the immediate establishment of an international body to represent students and deal with their problems at an international level. Dr W. Kinston (U.K.) explained that at the previous Student Pre-Congresses the same need had been expressed but no such body had been effectively formed due to democratic difficulties e.g. as reported from the Vienna Conference, 'Although some candid