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Dr Payne was in the Chair. Members present: Dr Payne, Dr A. Stephen, Dr Usher, Miss Low, Miss Sheehan-Dare, Dr Winnicott, Mrs Klein, Miss Sharpe, Mrs Milner, Dr Wilson, Dr Gillespie, Mrs Isaacs, Dr Bowlby, Mrs Riviere, Dr Rickman, Dr Heimann.
The. Chairman announced that letters of apology for absence had been received from Drs Jones, Brierley, who sent her good wishes to the meeting, and Dr Franklin.
1 The Chairman asked Dr Usher to read a summary of the minutes of the last Business Meeting, as the full minutes were very long. The summary of decisions was read and, as nobody asked for full minutes, they were passed and signed.
Miss Low asked permission to make a statement. She said that she had been asked by several Members and an Associate Member to bring forward the subject of a letter written by the Scientific Secretary to an Associate Member. It was dated Sept. 18th and contained the following passage:
‘I think we have really now an opportunity of turning over a new leaf but we can only do it if we prevent the Society falling into the
hands of any “party”, whether they are called “Kleinians” or “Freudians”.’
Commenting on it, Miss Low said that it was difficult to know what the writer meant. She asked how, since the Society is a Freudian Society, there could be a Freudian party within it. She certainly thought there should be no Kleinian party in a Freudian Society. She said that the matter at issue was whether those who believed the Society should occupy itself with Freudian science should remain in it, or whether the others who wanted something different from Freudian theory and practice had a right to be in a Society which was a constituent branch of the International Psychoanalytical Association. The remedy lay in insisting that membership should consist solely of