Notes and News

An International Congress for Psychotherapy will be held at Zurich from July 21-24, 1954, under the auspices of the Swiss Medical Association of Psychotherapists. The subject for discussion at the Congress will be: Transference In Psychotherapy.

This subject leads on naturally from that discussed at the last Congress held at Leiden in 1951, which met to consider affective relations in general. Transference is a special form of those relations which is of the utmost importance to the psychotherapist.

The aim of our Congress is a clarification of questions which most deeply concern the future of modern psychotherapy.

As regards organization, it is proposed to have 5-6 papers read at general meetings, and a larger number in the sub-sections, all dealing with the nature and importance of transference in general psychotherapeutic practice and clinical psychiatric treatment, in child psychotherapy, in general medicine and psycho-somatic disorders. The sub-sections will also deal with the ethnological, historical and sociological aspects of transference.

Attendance at the Congress is open to all psychotherapists who (a) are members of a national association of psychiatrists or of a recognized society of psychotherapists; (b) are qualified doctors or qualified lay practitioners who are not members of such an association, but are recommended in writing by its president or two of its members.

For further particulars write to: The Secretariat, International Congress for Psychotherapy, Zurich, 1954, Theaterstrasse 12, Zurich 1, Switzerland.

The American Psychosomatic Society will hold its Eleventh Annual Meeting at the Jung Hotel in New Orleans on Saturday and Sunday, March 27 and 28, 1954.

The Program Committee would like to receive titles and abstracts of papers for consideration for the program by December 1, 1953. The time allotted for the reading of each paper will be fifteen to twenty-five minutes. The Committee is interested in investigations in the theory and practice of psych