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The present volume commemorates the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Washington Psychoanalytic Association.1 A few words of its development, policies, and relation to the psychoanalytic movement as a whole, therefore, are appropriate.
The group was organized in April, 1924, its stated object being the furtherance and dissemination of knowledge relating to psychoanalysis, both as regards its clinical and theoretical aspects. In spirit it attempts to raise the standards for psychoanalysis to a point sufficiently high as to command proper respect of the general medical profession as well as of the lay public.
Its active membership is limited to physicians who have had a reasonably good training in neurology and psychiatry and are engaged in the actual practice of psychoanalysis. The member must have been satisfactorily analyzed by a recognized analyst. One hundred and fifty hours are considered the minimum for a satisfactory analysis. A recognized analyst is defined here as one who himself has been successfully analyzed and in other ways able to comply fully and without exception with requirements for admission. Applicants must present three successful control cases analyzed under the guidance of a recognized analyst, preferably other than the one who originally analyzed the applicant. At admission the applicant presents a qualifying paper which must be approved by the group. Individuals who have been identified with the psychoanalytic movement before 1920 are exempt from the above specification, provided that