Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 3, 1955, No. 4: Ives Hendrick. 'Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.'

In this Presidential address, Dr. Hendrick describes the present situation of the American Psychoanalytic Association and reviews its past history. His description of the development of the Association, its training policy, and the present administrative machinery is detailed and comprehensive. There are at present eight standing committees and twenty-two ad hoc committees dealing with various aspects of the Association's commitments and responsibilities. The growth of the Association has been particularly rapid in the past decade. In 1930 the membership was 65; now in 1955 the membership is over 600, with 925 candidates at fourteen Institutes and three training centres.

Rudolf Ekstein. 'Termination of the Training Analysis within the Framework of Present-day Institutes.'

Training analysis is particularly complicated by the fact that the training analyst participates in decisions regarding the candidate's progress. While various solutions have been offered with regard to this problem Ekstein believes that the only way is for the training analyst to analyse carefully the reality aspects of the situation. This reality function of the training analyst influences the transference situation—the candidate's feelings about his analyst are derived not only from genuine instinctual object wishes but also from the latter's potential influence on his future career. As some degree of identification with the training analyst is necessary for the candidate, especially in his early analytic work, it is impossible in the training analysis to resolve these identifications completely as would be the case with a patient. The view is expressed that a candidate's first psycho-analytic experience should be a thoroughgoing classical analysis. The principle of flexibility should be applied to the interpretative process only, and not to those constant factors which make flexible analysis possible.

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