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The annual meeting of The American Psychoanalytic Association was held in Atlantic City, at the Hotel Traymore, June 3, 1924. Afternoon and evening sessions, both well attended by guests and members, were held.
The members present were: Drs. Burrow and Tanneyhill, of Baltimore; White, of Washington; Coriat, of Boston; Reed, of Cincinnati; Farnel, of Providence; Smeltz, of Pittsburgh; Oberndorf, Jelliffe, Brill, and Stern, of New York. Dr. C. P. Oberndorf presided.
After reading and adopting the minutes of the previous meeting, the scientific session was opened by Dr. Coriat, of Boston, with a paper entitled “The Character Traits of Urethral Erotism.” This was followed by a paper by Dr. Stern, of New York, “A Psychoanalytic Attempt to Explain Some Spontaneous ‘Cures’ in the Psychoneuroses.” The members and guests then had the rare pleasure to listen to a paper by our distinguished guest, Dr. Otto Rank, of Vienna, on “The Trauma of Birth, in Its Importance for Psychoanalytic Therapy”.
An executive session followed immediately upon the scientific session; the annual election was held, and the following officers were unanimously elected: President, Dr. I. H. Coriat, of Boston; Secretary, Dr. Adolph Stern, of New York; Council, Drs. S. E, Jelliffe and A. A. Brill, of New York, and Trigant Burrow, of Baltimore.
The following new members were elected:
Active members: Drs. G. Stragnell, A. Polon, J. J. Asch, B. Glueck, L. Blumgart, of New York; H. S. Sullivan, of Baltimore; M. W. Peck, of Boston; K. C. Menninger, of Topeka.
Honorary members: Drs. K. Abraham, of Berlin; Otto Rank, of Vienna; S. Ferenczi, of Buda Pest.
The evening session was devoted to the reading of the following papers, in the order named: “Our Mass Neurosis,” by Dr. Burrow, of Baltimore; “A Note on False Confession, with an Illustrative Case,” by Dr. Reed, of Cincinnati; “The Oral Complex,” by Dr. Sullivan, of Baltimore; “The Φ-Systems of Freud,” by Dr. Thompson, of Los Angeles.
An active and interesting discussi