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The Training Committee has lately been criticized by the Society for delaying the report about the bearing of the present controversies on training, as if such postponement were a deliberate attempt to sabotage the efforts made to clarify the situation in the Society. It seems to me that these criticisms were unjust and that according to the present policy of the Society no considered statement can be made about these matters except on the basis and in close conjunction with the outcome of the discussions about these Scientific Controversies.
But if our recommendations have to be presented to the Society regardless of this fact there are, as far as I can see, two points for the Training Committee to consider:
Whether Mrs Klein's new findings and theories necessarily lead to transformations and innovations of technical procedure, and
If this should be the case, whether the Training Committee considers it as its task to teach one main analytic theory and technique or whether it desires to create an open forum for the free teaching of all current analytic theories and consequent techniques.
It is unnecessary to remind analysts of the fact that, during the whole development of psychoanalysis, theory and technique have been found to be indissolubly bound up with each other, so that every new step in theory produced changes of the technique and every