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; and On the Evaluation of Therapeutic Results.
. On Genital Love.
Heredity and Psychoanalysis.
. Analysis of a Cartoon in a Case of Hypochondriasis.
. A Technical Problem in the Treatment of the Infant Patient.
; and On the Evaluation of Therapeutic Results. A Symposium. There is a limited value in the evaluation of results which are made in terms of existing nosological entities. These entities are the illegitimate descendants of a type of psychiatry which grew out of the limited knowledge of the neurologists of the last century. To this day the essential dynamics of the neurotic process are unknown. As the component parts of procedures are broken down for detailed study one may investigate transference and counter-transference phenomena between people who have never seen each other before; and from that, work toward the goal-directed transference phenomena which are encountered in therapy. Studies of the whole problem of telepathy and extra-sensory perception will also be needed because of their importance here. A new nosological basis will have to be found which will recognize the unitary processes of falling ill and falling well, checking the accuracy of memory at every point along the way against automatic records, studying the divergences of opinion and interpretation concerning observations which can be made simultaneously by different observers, and taking into consideration all of the immense number of variables which enter into the picture: the total life situation, the symptomatology, and the personality changes which have been produced in illness and in the recovery process.
. On Genital Love. Genital love in man is really a misnomer. One can find genital love in the true sense only in animals which develop in a straight, undistorted line from infantile ways of behaviour to mature genital s