Presidential Message

As our statutes stipulate, the organ of the IPA is the Bulletin, edited by the IPA's Secretary, and published periodically for all the membership. The Bulletin provides information on the international Congresses, the Business Meetings held regularly every two years, the meetings of the Executive Council and the activities of societies and study groups. Another traditional means of communication has been the Newsletter, which generally appeared irregularly in a rather unattractive format.

During the presidency of Joseph Sandler, the old Newsletter became International Psychoanalysis, published biannually in the four official languages of the IPA. Thanks to the leadership of Ethel S. Person, International Psychoanalysis has been publishing a good part of the information covered by the Bulletin; but this implies no major contradiction, since the Bulletin offers more complete information and includes the news sent in by the component societies of the IPA, while International Psychoanalysis highlights the important facts as soon as they are produced.

Personally, I believe that International Psychoanalysis has contributed to providing a broader and more continuous flow of information, which is fundamental if the members are to know what is going on in the IPA, and also if the authorities are to hear the opinions, suggestions and criticisms of the membership.

After having worked tenaciously and intelligently for four years and having published eight issues, Ethel Person decided that her work had been well concluded, and left her position. It was not easy to replace her, and for that reason I consulted many colleagues and consultants, who agreed that the new editor should be Leopold Nosek, of São Paulo. It is now his job to keep up the high standard of International Psychoanalysis, within a budget not in excess of 10 per cent of total IPA Trust expenditure, and at the same time he has to construct new pathways to make the dialogue between the IPA, the societies and the analys