The first number of the Medical Section opens with a symposium on the revival of emotional memories. William Brown believes that the important therapeutic factor is the revival, with emotional or hallucinatory vividness, of the forgotten painful memories. He considers the liberation of the pent-up emotion by abreaction to be the most important factor, but he also attaches some importance to the abolition of amnesia and the re-synthesis of the mind. In cases of hysterical shell-shock a two-fold dissociation occurs. First, certain psycho-physical functions, with their accompanying memories, become dissociated from personal consciousness and, secondly, there is a dissociation between the psycho-physical and physical counterparts of the emotional reaction of fear. The physical counterpart then persists instead of being evanescent. The former dissociation is concerned with the sensorimotor, and the latter with the sympathetic nervous system. These dissociations may be abolished by revival of the emotion with hallucinatory vividness. Emotional over-emphasis is considered