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(This report was adopted by a Business Meeting, March 8th, 1944.)
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 further 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 discussions upon it. As the outcome of these a draft report was drawn up and submitted to the members of the Committee, but before it was considered or discussed by the Committee two of its members, Dr Edward Glover and Miss Anna Freud, resigned their membership of the Committee. The draft having been considered and amended by the Committee, it now begs to report as follows to the Society.
The problem submitted to the Training Committee was ostensibly restricted to the immediate controversy in the Society. Nevertheless,