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THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION held a joint session with the American Psychiatric Association on Wednesday, May 30, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. The session was devoted to a Symposium on the Relation of Psychoanalysis to Psychiatry by Dr. A. A. Brill, and papers were read by Drs. Leland E. Hinsie, R. McC. Chapman, Harry Stack Sullivan, Fritz Wittels, Lewis B. Hill and Sándor Lorand.
Abstracts of Papers:
1The Relationship of Psychoanalysis to Psychiatry. By Leland E. Hinsie (New York City).—The psychoanalytic formulations of Freud provide the most comprehensive attitude not only for the understanding of the dynamic forces operative in the various psychogenic syndromes, but also for the treatment of those forces. There are various modifications by which psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic information are often applied, the methods depending upon the circumstances peculiar to the syndrome that is under management. But, there are much broader phases encountered in psychiatric practice that cannot as yet