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AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION. Under the Chairmanship of the retiring President, Dr. Isador H. Coriat, the executive session of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held in Washington, D. C., on December 28, 1937. The following officers were elected: President: Dr. Franz Alexander, Chicago; Vice President: Dr. Lewis B. Hill, Washington-Baltimore; Secretary: Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, New York; Treasurer: Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman, Boston; Representative on the International Training Committee: Dr. Helene Deutsch, Boston. Ratification was given to an action of the Council on Professional Training whereby a special subcommittee of the Council was appointed to formulate minimal standards for professional training applicable to all of the American societies. This committee consisted of: Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, Chairman, Dr. M. Ralph Kaufman, Dr. Thomas M: French, Dr. Lewis B. Hill, Dr. George E. Daniels. Ratification was also given to the appointment of a special committee to study in detail the relationship of the American societies to the International Psychoanalytic Society, this committee consisting of Drs. Kubie, Kaufman, French, Rado, and Hill. At the Scientific Sessions the following papers were read: Significance of the Preservation of Reality Situations in Depersonalization States by C. P. Oberndorf, M.D., New York City; Influences of the Environment and Adaptation to Reality in Early Infancy by Theresa Benedek, M.D., Chicago; Psychoanalysis and the General Hospital by H. Flanders Dunbar, M.D., New York City; Pain as a Psychosomatic Problem by Felix Deutsch, M.D., Boston; The Psychoanalytic Study of a Case of Chronic Exudative Dermatitis by Leo Bartemeier, M.D., Detroit; Poetry Production as an Emergency Defense of Anxiety by H. Levey, M.D., Chicago; A Genetic Study of the Relation of Humor to Masochism by Lucille Dooley, M.D., Washington; Premature Birth as a Factor in Development of a Paranoid Depressive Mechanism by Lucia Tower, M.D., Chica