Notes

THE CHICAGO INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS has issued a Five-Year Report 1932–1937 of its activities. In addition to its work in professional training, the Institute has been active in coöperating with groups of physicians, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers and teachers. It has engaged in several research projects fruitful in valuable contributions to the understanding of psychosomatic interrelationships. These have included studies of psychogenic factors

in gastro-intestinal disturbances, psychic influences on respiration, emotional influences in bronchial asthma and in cardio-vascular disturbances; isolated observations upon psychic factors in epilepsies and endocrine disturbances, and a study of the rôle of emotional factors in some cases of common colds. In addition, there have been begun studies on electroencephalograms and personality, and in child analysis. The Institute has a new research project on the relation of psychological processes and endocrine functions. It has also undertaken a special study of suicide under the auspices of the Committee for the Study of Suicide. The focus of attention of the group has by no means been limited to the body-mind relationships. Considerable attention has been given to the relation of the individual to the social group embodied in papers on the sociological implications of psychoanalysis and in contributions to criminology.