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Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe of New York was made an Honorary Life Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association at the last regular meeting.
June 12, 1941.
At the recent meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association in Richmond a Committee on Morale was established for the purpose of preparing a program and determining ways and means by which the members of the Association could contribute to national morale. This committee, whose members are listed below, is anxious to determine what are the resources of the members of the Association in terms of experience, time, and energy available for use in some form by the armed services or the civilian authorities. The purpose of this circular letter, therefore, is to ask each member to submit information for the guidance of this committee, including answers to the following questions:
Have you any preference as to service with some branch of the armed forces or with the civil administration?
How much time could you devote to such services? (a) Full time, (b) Half time, (c) One or two days a week, (d) One or two hours a day. (e) Three or four hours per week.
How much notice would you need before being called upon to offer your services?
Have you any suggestions of a general or specific character which you would like to offer this committee for its consideration and guidance?
Have you any reprints or other summaries of experience in the field of prevention or therapy of the neuroses characteristic of emergencies similar to the present, or of actual warfare?
Have you any analytical or historical material of importance dealing with the presence of Fascist, Communist, or similar attitudes among patients in your practice, or in that of any of your colleagues? It is our thought that it should be possible to discover and tabulate all mechanisms typical of such cases, taking care at the same time to avoid the possibility of individual identification, a danger which it is almost impossible to eliminate when elaborate case reports are pu