Notes

The BULLETIN (Volume 1, No. 1) OF THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY and THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE, 245 East 82d Street, New York 28, New York, was issued May, 1947 by the editors Emeline P. Hayward, M.D. and Otto Isakower, M.D. Excerpts are given herewith:

The formal opening of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and dedication of the Society's new building on October 25, 1946, culminated the hopes, ambitions and efforts of members and their friends to establish the physical facilities necessary for the expansion and implementation of postgraduate training in psychoanalytic psychiatry. Drs. Chisholm, Brill, Stern and Lehrman addressed an audience of over a hundred persons. A portrait of Dr. Freud by Professor William Victor Krausz was presented and hung in the library.

An organized plan to raise funds to pay the expenses of a clinic, and to establish teaching on a full-time basis, is actively operating.

The meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association opened May 17th with special meetings, limited to members, held in The Psychoanalytic Institute. On May 18th, meetings were held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, followed by a banquet. On May 19th, the joint meeting with the American Psychiatric Association was held.

The Institute Library was organized in 1932 to serve the members of the Society and the students of the Institute. Through the years it has been enriched by gifts and bequests, the most important being the library of Dr. Dorian Feigenbaum in 1940. Today the library has about fifteen hundred books and filings of ninety different journals and over one thousand reprints. Psychoanalytic journals in German and in English are represented by complete files, and the collection of Freudiana includes uniform editions as well as single works. The library currently receives twenty journals and adds new books on psychoanalysis and related subjects. The library serves about one hundred twenty readers a month with one hundred seventy books and journ