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The Forty-Seventh Meeting of THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION convened at Palmer House, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 26, 27, 1946.
Scientific Sessions: Paul Bergman, Ph.D. (by invitation): Scolding as a Psychotherapeutic Technique; Dr. Emanuel Windholz: The Discharge Neurosis; Dr. Ernst Simmel: Alcoholism and Addiction; Erik H. Erikson: Ego Development and Historical Change; Dr. Martin Grotjahn: Experience with Group Psychotherapy in Cases of Veterans; Dr. Leon J. Saul: The Concept of Maturity.
Business Sessions: Meeting of the Council on Professional Training, May 25, 1946. Presiding: Dr. Dexter M. Bullard, Vice-President, in the absence of Dr. Bertram D. Lewin, President. Secretary: Dr. Robert P. Knight. Members of the Council on Professional Training: Chicago—Drs. Thomas M. French and Helen Vincent McLean; Detroit—Dr. Leo H. Bartemeier; San Francisco—Dr. Ernst Simmel; Topeka—Dr. Robert P. Knight; Washington-Baltimore—Dr. Ernest E. Hadley. Guests: Dr. George J. Mohr, Dr. John M. Murray, Dr. George W. Wilson.
The Secretary read the following agenda:
1Application of Los Angeles Society for Constituent (or affiliate) membership.
2Application of the Los Angeles Society for recognition of partial training in association with the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
3Discussion of military neuropsychiatric experience in lieu of the requirement of one year of inpatient psychiatric experience as a prerequisite to analytic training.
4Report of the special committee, appointed May 1945, to study the psychoanalytic training activities at Columbia University.
5Discussion of the relationship between Institutes, particularly referable to transfer of students.