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The first Annual Survey of Psychoanalysis takes the form of a massive volume of over 500 pages, containing about 350, 000 words, equivalent to the average size of one volume of this Journal. It covers no less than 231 publications, all issued during the year 1950, ranging from short communications in The Bulletin of the American Psycho-analytic Association to 12 full-sized books, which are summarized in 126 pages. The bulk of the material comes from our two quarterly periodicals, The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (over 40 papers) and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly (over 30 papers), and from the 5th volume of The Psycho-analytic Study of the Child. The American Imago and The Psychoanalytic Review are both well represented. Readers will be gratified to note that the Revue Française de Psychanalyse, the Argentine Revista de Psichanálisis, and the Indian Samiksa, have not been overlooked, so that the undertaking is one of cosmopolitan dimensions. Since the boundaries of psycho-analysis are of necessity somewhat fluid, the work of psycho-analysts has had to be tracked down in the more specialized and national periodicals such as Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychiatry, The Psychiatric Quarterly, and The British Journal of Medical Psychology. The American Joural of Orthopsychiatry is represented by one paper (the bibliographical reference being misprinted, p. 532, No. 22); other periodicals, such as The Journal of Mental Science, Journal of Human Relations, and The British Journal of Delinquency frequently used as media of psycho-analytic publications will, we hope, find consideration in subsequent volumes. A few papers by one or two authors not listed elsewhere as psycho-analysts, and published in periodicals noted for a critical attitude towards psycho-analysis, have been included in the Survey, and illustrate what those authors probably consider as the advantage of not being restricted by group-loyalties and group-criticism.
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