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The fourth International Congress for Analytical Psychology was held in Zürich between August 28th and September 4th 1968 and was organized once again by the Swiss Society. It was a pleasure to return to Switzerland and enjoy the hospitality its inhabitants know so well how to arrange.
To describe the conference as a whole in this report would not be possible, so it remains to pick out trends of interest and add a short comment. There were two clinical papers approaching the subject of transference and counter-transference—one by Mario Jacoby and another by Kieffer Frantz—and an interesting and ingenious description of the treatment of a schizophrenic case by Professor Tedeschi; Bernhard produced a long and subtle paper on dream analysis, and Jolande Jacobi presented a series of vivid pictures from a case of obsessional neurosis. There were two papers on child psychology, one on fairy tales by Dieckmann, the other on therapy by Annemarie Sänger. Professor Meier gave a vigorous presentation of the application of experimental techniques to the type problem and, as a contrast, Dreifuss described in moving and simple terms the analysis of a victim of Nazi persecution.
The congress was advertised to include the subject of training, but only one paper on this subject was given, by Fordham, which stimulated interest (could not the committee have organized a symposium on the subject?). But the best-attended discussion was on a polemic delivered by Adler on conflicts in the International Society. Could this really be the main topic of interest? If so it would be much better if the matter could be raised to the level of a prepared discussion rather than a one-sided assault.
As a whole it must be said regretfully that the congress itself was disappointing: the subject-matter of the papers, though carefully presented, was seldom original, and those which did attempt to break new ground were not developed. It had been advertised that the papers were to be short, twenty minutes to h