Notes

The meeting of the Executive Council of the AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION was held in New York City, December 14, 1946, Bertam D. Lewin, M.D., President, presiding; Secretary, Robert P. Knight, M.D.

On the question of multiple membership in two or more affiliate societies, since societies no longer vote as units, but instead individual members of the American Psychoanalytic Association vote as individuals, the question of duplicate membership is an issue only in the case of the elected Councilors representing affiliate societies, and the elected fellows on the Board on Professional Standards. A proposed amendment requiring a member belonging to more than one society to vote in only one of these affiliate societies, and to declare his selection when paying his dues for the year was not accepted and was then tabled, with no restrictions voted with respect to multiple memberships.

The Council voted to approve the application of the Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society, composed of those members of the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society residing in Baltimore—for reasons of convenience.

The Council affirmed that the category of associate membership is an individual affiliate society matter, but that only those analysts who are active members of affiliate societies may be certified by the affiliate society to the American as members of the American. The roster will follow the affiliate societies' listings.

The President appointed a committee to define the relationship between the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. A communication from the editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis was referred to this committee.

The work of the translation committee of Freud's works, whose chairman was the late Dr. Otto Fenichel, was discontinued in view of the plan of the British to publish an English edition.