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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE colloquia on Psychosomatic Medicine were held December 6th and 7th, 1941. The topic for discussion was The Biology and Psychology of 'Instinctual' Processes. First session: General Introduction. Moderator, Lawrence K. Frank. Dr. W. S. Hunter: Theoretical and Experimental Background of the Theory of Instincts. Dr. F. Fremont-Smith: A Review of Some Recent Experimental Studies of Metabolic Influences on Instinctual Processes. Second session: The Sexual Instincts. Moderator, Dr. Harold G. Wolff. Dr. Philip Bard: Neural Mechanisms in Emotional and Sexual Behavior in the Female. Dr. F. A. Beach: Mechanisms in the Sexual Behavior in the Male. Third session: Embryological and Endocrine Influences on Instinctual Processes. Moderator, Dr. Henry A. Murray. Dr. Davenport Hooker: Foetal Reflexes and Instinctual Processes. Dr. Carl Hartman: Endocrine Influences on Instinctual Processes. Discussion opened by Dr. Ephraim Shorr. Fourth session: Social and Cultural Implications. Moderator, Lawrence K. Frank. Dr. Margaret Mead: Anthropological Data on the Problem of Instincts. General Survey of Analytic Implications. Members of the Panel: Drs. Gregory Bateson, Carl Binger, George E. Daniels, Felix Deutsch, Flanders Dunbar, Kurt Goldstein, Heinz Hartmann, Ives Hendrick, M. Ralph Kaufman, Lawrence S. Kubie, Bertram D. Lewin, H. S. Liddell, Bela Mittelmann, Gardner Murphy, Lois Murphy, Henry A. Murray, Robert F. Pitts, Ephraim Shorr, Robert Waelder, Harold G. Wolff, R. W. Dawson, Adolf Meyer.