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This entire number of the Bulletin is devoted to the transcription of a seminar on psychoanalytic theory and technique conducted by Miss Anna Freud on May 10, 1954, for members and students of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis. Robert Waelder was chairman. The discussants were Douglas O. Bond, Margaret Mahler, K. R. Eissler, Dora Hartmann, Maurits Katan, Mary O'Neill Hawkins, Paul Sloane, Rudolph M. Loewenstein, Eli Marcovitz, Daniel Silverman, Nathan H. Colton, Marianne Kris, Edward Kronold, and Sidney U. Wenger.
In an outline prepared for the seminar, entitled Problems of Technique in Adult Analysis, and in her introductory remarks, Miss Freud defined psychoanalytic therapy as one that recognizes and works with two processes in the patient's mind, transference and resistance, and that is dynamically, genetically, qualitatively, and structurally determined. Since such rules of analytic technique as the basic rule of free association, the use of the couch, and the handling of the transference have a logical basis in this definition, any technical modifications we