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This issue is dedicated to the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
When, following a history of strife within the profession, Jordan Packer arrived in New York late in 1972 with an idea for a national psychoanalytic organization, it seemed almost too optimistic to believe that the various schools within the field could cooperate. Yet, ten institutes were represented at a meeting in Los Angeles in 1973 to plan the formation of NAAP and an annual conference.
A committee, appointed to determine what training was available nationwide, contacted each training facility in the country. Twenty-seven institutes were invited to the second annual conference.
Early conferences were devoted to establishing an organization and to determining suitable standards for accreditation in psychoanalysis. By the third annual conference, some Freudians were expressing concern about accepting Freudian, Jungian and Aderlian training under one title, and an attempt was made to re-establish separation within the profession. The danger of falling into a repetition of past history was averted by a decision to continue in an ecumenical spirit, healing the wounds inflicted by subgroups on one another.