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THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION will hold its forty-second annual meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Netherlands-Plaza Hotel, from Sunday, May 19th through Thursday, May 23d, 1940. The officers of the Association are: A. A. Brill, M.D., New York, Honorary President; Lewis B. Hill, M.D., Baltimore, President; George E. Daniels, M.D., New York, Vice-President; Lawrence S. Kubie, M.D., New York, Secretary; Helen Vincent McLean, M.D., Chicago, Treasurer.

On Sunday, May 19th, at 9 A.M. there will be a meeting of the Executive Council and of the Council on Professional Training. From 2 to 5:30 P.M. and from 8 to 10 P.M. scientific meetings will be held. On Monday, May 20th, 9 A.M. to 12 noon a scientific session; 12 to 1 P.M. a business meeting; 2 to 6 P.M. a scientific session will be held. At 8 P.M. there will be a round table discussion for members only. Tuesday, May 21st: no scientific meetings during the day; there will be a business meeting at noon if necessary; 8 P.M. a scientific meeting in memory of Professor Sigmund Freud. Wednesday, May 22d, in the morning and afternoon the American Psychoanalytic Association will hold joint meetings with the Section on Psychoanalysis of the American Psychiatric Association. Thursday, May 23d, there will be a round table discussion under the auspices of the American Psychoanalytic Association. The Program Committee felt that it would be advisable to devote this year's program to a symposium of some definite topic. Each paper will be given forty-five minutes; should the reader take less time, the remainder of the period allotted will be devoted to a discussion of the paper. The Committee agreed to offer as the topic of the symposium: 'Compulsive Phenomena', i.e. compulsive manifestations in neuroses in general, in psychoses, in neurotic characters, character formations and cultural life. It was believed this all-inclusive review of the subject offered sufficient scope for the presentation of the varied indi