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Dr Jones was in the Chair and 27 members were present (Glover, Payne, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Melitta and Walter Schmideberg, Low, H. Hoffer, Burlingham, A. Freud, Herford, Lantos, Friedlander, Franklin, Ruben, Winnicott, Brierley, Sharpe, Yates, Haas, Gillespie, Isaacs, Riviere, Klein, Wilson, Steiner, Heimann) and Dr Macdonald.
The Chairman stated that last time the minutes were left over and suggested to do the same this time as reading the minutes would take very much time.
Dr Payne: That would take the whole evening.
It was decided not to read the minutes.
Dr Jones made then preliminary remarks to bring the meeting back to the situation.
A considerable number of Members in various speeches so far, Dr Schmideberg's very pointedly, have pointed out that the essential aim we are striving for is to get the possibility of discussing the scientific work and the scientific differences in an objective fashion. We know that this matter is by no means easy though it should be interesting. We know, being human beings, there will be impulses of resistance to be coped with, but we are psychoanalysts. In my view this problem of scientific differences or, rather, the scientific differences are in themselves not really so important as some Members consider. The much more grave and important matters are