A PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY GROUP has been established in Los Angeles for the study and dissemination of psychoanalytic knowledge and for encouraging the application of psychoanalysis to other branches of science, under the presidency of Dr. Ernst Simmel. The chief aim of this group, which does not purport to be a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, is to further the theoretical psychoanalytic education of its own members. Its immediate program is to discuss the fundamental conceptions of psychoanalysis by means of papers by the members. The group has a restricted membership.