Proceedings of the Brief Psychotherapy Council. Mimeographed, Paper Bound. Pp.  71. [Chicago:  The Institute for Psychoanalysis.]

For several years the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago has devoted time to working out” techniques of brief psychotherapy based on psychoanalytic principles.” Numerous workers took part in this council meeting. In the summary Helgesson expresses the view that there is

confusion and that criteria must be used to determine in which cases micro or macro methods should be used. Lewis states that it is necessary to formulate a comprehensive definition of the personality, to discover criteria for determining the state of the ego, to coordinate the work going on in various centers, to establish common denominations of facts, to establish criteria for estimation of results of psychotherapy, to try types of therapy out in hospital out-patient departments, to insure that teachers of psychiatry really give organized instruction in dynamics of the mind. It is said that the treatment described is brief only in comparison with psychoanalysis but is not necessarily brief. In closing, Alexander states that the conference showed that the representatives of different schools of thought and method could well understand each other. Plans have been made for a second meeting to take place in 1943.