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The eighteenth annual meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association was held in Washington, D. C., on May eighth in conjunction with the First International Congress on Mental Hygiene. It was a noteworthy event in the history of the association in that the entire program was furnished by psychoanalysts from abroad who came as guests to attend the congress. Our distinguished visitors not only read papers at the sessions of the American Psychoanalytic Association but participated in numerous discussions at other sessions of the congress. This notable group ably represented the psychoanalytic standpoint in those sections of the congress devoted to criminology, social hygiene, child welfare, etc. The scientific session of the American Psychoanalytic Association held on the afternoon of May eighth was attended by an audience of more than five hundred and many others who could not obtain admission to the hall. The program follows:
Afternoon Session: About Dreams with Painful Content, Dr. Franz Alexander, Berlin; Notes on Suicide Fantasies Connected with Traumata of Early Infancy, Miss Mary Chadwick, London; Concerning the Actual Conflict in the Neuroses, Dr. Helene Deutsch, Vienna.
Evening Session: Aim, Procedure and Results of Psychoanalytic Therapy in Clinics, Dr. R. A. Spitz, Berlin; Scope and Results of Psychoanalytic Therapy (in German), Dr. Sandór Radó, Berlin; What Types of Revolutionary Changes Does Psychoanalysis Demand of Ethics and Moral Education (in German), Dr. Oskar Pfister, Zurich.
In addition to the above European psychoanalysts, Prof. M. Levi Bianchini of Italy attended the congress.
At the business session, the following new members were elected: Dr. H. E. Chamberlin, Minneapolis; Dr. Anna C. Dannaman, Washington; Dr. Alexander Lorand, New York; Dr. Clinton P. McCord, Albany.
The resignation of Dr. H. W. Frink was accepted with regret.
Numerous changes to the constitution recommended by a committee appointed during the winter were passed. The most import