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At its General Meeting on July 29th, 1942, the British Psycho-Analytical Society directed the Training Committee to consider and report upon the effects of current Scientific Controversies, upon questions of training. At the General Meeting on July 21st, 1943, an Interim Report was presented by the committee, which was then requested by the Society to present a Final Report at the earliest possible opportunity.
In the meantime the Committee has received written memoranda upon the subject from the majority of its individual Members and has had a number of lengthy and frank discussions upon it. As the outcome of these, it begs to report as follows to the Society.
The problem submitted to the Training Committee is ostensibly restricted to the immediate controversy in the Society. Nevertheless, the Committee feels that to suggest the adoption of a superficial, ad hoc solution would be unsatisfactory. It would be a mistake to imagine that the current situation is of extraordinary or unique importance. The underlying causes that have produced it are, on the contrary, almost certain to lead to a succession of similar difficulties, and it is only by examining those underlying causes that there can be any prospect of arriving at a more permanent remedy.
The Training Committee is an executive organ of the Society,