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The following have been nominated by the Nominating Committee for the year 1945-1946: Officers—President, Dr. Sara A. Bonnett; Vice-President, Dr. René A. Spitz; Secretary, Dr. Sidney Kahn; Treasurer, Dr. Z. Rita Parker.
DR. frieda fromm-reichmann, Director of Psychotherapy at Chestnut Lodge Sanitarium, Rockville, Maryland, and Fellow of the Washington School of Psychiatry, will give a seminar on Advanced Psychotherapy in San Francisco March 26-April 2, 1945, under the auspices of the Department of Psychiatry of the University of California Medical School, Stanford University Medical School and the Mount Zion Hospital.
An increasing number of rehabilitation clinics are springing into being. Most of these are working toward the same end; treatment and investigation of the forces and factors involved in the rehabilitation process. Many aspects of the problem remain still unclear. The following outline will indicate some of the major problems in need of clarification. Various aspects might be taken up for investigation by individual clinics. We would appreciate being informed of research projects that are under way in order that some of these basic issues might be clarified in a coordinated fashion.
Suggestions for Research Projects in Civilian Psychiatric Rehabilitation—1. Studies in Therapeutic Techniques. Because of the heavy case load and limited number of therapists, there is an urgent need for the development of new and effective techniques of therapy, (a) Narco-analysis; (b) Hypno-analysis; (c) Hypnogogic trance; (d) Group therapy methods; (e) Brief therapy methods (general psychiatric); (f) Brief therapy methods (psychoanalytic). (Concerted effort should be made to cull the psychoanalytic methods and procedures, redirecting them into briefe