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This issue of the IPA Bulletin contains the Report of the Business Meeting held in Hamburg on the occasion of the 34th IPA Congress, and it covers also the worldwide activities of psychoanalysis during the last two years of the outgoing administration. It is also the first Bulletin for which I have the occasion to write a Presidential Mesage on behalf of the new, incoming administration.
I do this at a fateful time in the scientific, professional, and social history of psychoanalysis. On the one hand the IPA, our worldwide professional and scientific organization, is in a seemingly flourishing state. We now have over 6, 000 members organized into 33 Component Societies, 2 Provisional Societies, and 3 Study Groups in the various regions of the world, plus one Regional Association (the American) with 35 Affiliate Societies plus 4 Study Groups of its own. We are growing, though unevenly, at the very rapid rate of about 500 members per year; the growth is particularly rapid in the Argentine, German, Italian, and Paris Societies, while in other areas, including the American and the British, we seem at a point of stability with little growth. Altogether this has resulted in a trend towards an equalizing shift amongst the several regions with now 41 per cent of the membership in North America (down from 51 per cent in 1975), 37 per cent in Europe (36 per cent in Europe/Asia/Australia in 1975), 20