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THE PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY GROUP OF LOS ANGELES reports that during the past working year the following papers were read and discussions held: Dr. Franz Alexander, Hysterial Conversion Symptoms and Organ Neuroses. (Guest.) Dr. Fritz Wittels, The Protophallic Psychopath. (Guest.) Dr. Franz Cohn, The Influence of the Erotogenic Zones on the Psyche. Mrs. Francis Deri, Identification and Hysterical Symptom. Prof. Paul Epstein, The Ego and the Defense Mechanisms by Anna Freud. Dr. Karl Menninger, Unconscious Motives of Suicide. (Guest.) Miss Helen Powner, Homosexuality as a Problem in Juvenile Delinquency. Mrs. Marjorie Leonard, Transference and Education. To the two already existing seminars: Theorie and Practice of the Psychoanalytic Method, conducted by Dr. Ernst Simmel, and Freud's Case Histories, conducted by Mrs. Francis Deri, two other seminars were added: 2. A Literary Seminar conducted by Dr. Ernst Simmel. This seminar was devoted to the study of the important older and new publications on Psychoanalysis. The following essays were discussed: Stages in the Development of the Sense of Reality by Ferenczi; The Problem of Acceptance of Unpleasant Ideas by Ferenczi; Destruction as a Cause of Being by Spielrein; Negation by Freud. The seminar then began a study of the literature dealing with the differences in the sexual development of man and woman. The first discussion followed Karl Abraham's essay on: Manifestations of the Female Castration Complex. 2. An Education Seminar conducted by Dr. Ernst Simmel and Dr. David Brunswick. This seminar was open to members and guests of the Psychoanalytic