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The Concept of Dissociation. Bernard Hart. Pp. 15-29.
The Reliability of Infantile Memories. J. A. Hadfield. Pp. 31-46.
The Psychology of the Psychotherapist. Edward Glover. Pp. 47-57.
Some Difficulties in Analytical Theory and Practice. T. A. Ross. Pp. 59-71.
The Conception of Nervous Disorder. Millais Culpin. Pp. 73-80.
The Myth of Progress. M. D. Eder. Pp. 81-89.
The first seven Presidential Addresses to the Medical Section of the British Psychological Society, given from 1925 to 1932, are reprinted. Younger analysts in particular may find it interesting to read of the difficulties in integrating the findings of psychoanalysis into older frames of reference.
James Glover emphasized the necessary distinctions between exploitation of the transference and its use as a means of reconstruction of the infantile neurosis. The dangers of manipulative therapeutic techniques were illustrated.
An attempt was made by Bernard Hart to compare the concept of dissociation formulated on phenomenological grounds by Janet with the dynamic view made possible by the structural hypotheses Freud had so recently developed. Special difficulty was encountered in understanding splits in the ego in structural terms. Discussions of the paper by Ernest Jones, T. W. Mitchell, and Edward Glover provided clues to the yet undeveloped concepts of ego psychology.
Hadfield apparently anticipated the idea of screen memories in a paper largely devoted to the presentation of evidence designed to suggest the reliability of infantile memories.