Notes

The LOS ANGELES PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY GROUP has continued its activities uninterruptedly since the last report in 1940. Since the formation of the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society, the Study Group works in close collaboration with the Society, especially in conducting seminars. In addition to the seminars many symposia were held and papers were read since 1940. Among the symposia were: Psychoanalysis in the Work at Induction Boards of the Armed Forces, The Work of the Psychoanalytically Oriented 'School for Nursery Years' in Los Angeles, The Psychology of the Immigrant, Precipitating Factors in Neuroses, Children in War, On the Concept of 'Sublimation', The Relation Between Genitality and Pregenitality.

Among the papers read were Discipline, Order and Police in Democratic Education and Freud's Earliest Theories and the School of Helmholtz1 by Dr. Siegried Bernfeld; Some Observations on the Yurok by Dr. Erik H. Erikson; Remarks on the Common Phobias,2 The Psychology of the Actor, Triumph and Trophy, Guilt Feeling, Indications and Contraindications of Psychoanalytic Therapy—all by Dr. Otto Fenichel; Psychoanalysis of Propaganda by Dr. Ralph R. Greenson; Psychological Factors in the Resumption of the World War by Dr. Pryns Hopkins; Man in Mass Culture by Dr. Loewenthal; Handling of Transference in Child Guidance by Dr. Anna Maenchen; The Nursery School as a Social Invention in Character Formation by Dr. Margaret Mead; The Psychology of Obstinacy by Mrs. Christine Olden;3 Shock Therapy by Dr. Norman Reider; Psychoanalytic Therapy in Clinic Patients by Dr. May E. Romm; On War Neuroses by Dr. Ernst Simmel; Views on Traumatic Neuroses by Dr. Albert Slutsky, and Contributions to the Psychology of Acting Out by Dr. Emanuel Windholz.