Notes

The series of introductory lectures and discussions on psychoanalysis given last spring by the PSYCHOANALYSTS OF CALIFORNIA through the coöperation of the San Francisco and Los Angeles groups, was received with enough interest and requests for a more detailed presentation that another series of discussions is planned for this spring. These lectures will have a clinical rather than a theoretical orientation. They will deal with concrete problems that constitute a material part not only of psychiatric but of general medical practice. They will present the point of view with which psychoanalysis approaches these problems. Membership in the group is limited to psychiatrists and to those physicians who are, by special training or experience or interest, 'psychiatrically minded' in their approach to medical problems. The following topics are to be discussed: The Psychoanalytic Approach to Problems in General Medicine (Dr. Kasanin); Psychoanalytic Concepts of Neuroses (Dr. Windholz); Neuroses as Sequelæ of Childhood Conflicts (Dr. Macfarlane); Repression and Its Dynamic Force in Neuroses (Dr. Bernfeld); The Meaning of Dreams in Psychoanalysis (Dr. Windholz); Psychoanalysis of Depressive States (Dr. Berliner); The Principles of Psychoanalytic Therapy (Dr. Berliner); Psychosomatic Medicine: Theory and Methods (Dr. Kasanin); The Study of Psychosomatic Psychoanalysis of Schizophrenia and Obsessive States (Dr. Kamm); The Psychology of the Physician (Dr. Bernfeld).