Notes and News

The Forty-Fourth Meeting of The American Psychoanalytic Association (A Federation of American Psychoanalytic Societies) was held at Boston, May 17, 18, 19, 20, 1942, with the following program: Presidential Address, Dr. Karl A. Menninger. Dr. Isador H. Coriat: “Some Aspects of a Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Music”; discussants, Drs. Brenner and Brill. Dr. Richard Sterba: “Metapsychology of Morale”; discussants, Drs. Redl and Murray. Dr. Morris W. Brody: “Neurotic Manifestations of the Voice”; discussants, Drs. Fliess and Pearson. Dr. Ives Hendrick: “Work and the Pleasure Principle”; discussants: Drs. French and Karl Menninger. Dr. Ernst Kris (by invitation): “Psychoanalytic Problems of Propaganda and Morale”; discussants, Drs. French and Kaufman. Dr. R. A. Spitz: “Developmental Processes in the Etiology of Psychosis”; discussants, Drs. Grinker and Brill. Dr. Fritz Moellenhoff: “A Projection Returns and Materializes; Some Observations About Nazi Germany”; discussants, Drs. Finesinger and Simmel. Election of Officers. Dr. Emmy Sylvester: “Analysis of Psychogenic Anorexia and Vomiting in a Four Year Old Child”; discussant, Dr. Mohr. Dr. Ruth Mack Brunswick: “An Instinctual Masculine Lie and its Feminine Counterpart”; discussants, Drs. Fromm-Reichmann and Hendrick. Round Table Discussion: “Application of Psychoanalysis to Problems of the War Emergency.” Moderator: Commander Uno H. Helgesson (MC), U.S.N.R. Participants: Drs. Karl A. Menninger, Leo Bartemeier, Jules Masserman, Ernst Simmel, John A. P. Millet, Franz Alexander, Philip Lehrman, and others. Joint Session with the Section on Psychoanalysis of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Association—Dr. Sandor Rado: “Pathodynamics and Treatment of the Traumatic War Neurosis”; discussants, Drs. A. A. Brill and John A. P. Millet. Drs. Roy Grinker and Norman Levy: “Psychological Observations in Affective Psychoses Treated with Combined Psychotherapy and C