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Dear Friends:
The main news from here is that two new psycho-analytical societies have been started, which have approached us with a view to contact (? affiliation). One is a group of doctors in a large hospital at Newcastle, and they sent a case-study as a specimen of their work; it was mediocre but on right lines. The other group is a of teachers, mostly in connection with University College, Cardiff, who meet at Porth, a small town in South Wales. I answered encouragingly and invited an official to call on me here and give me further information about their work and attitude, but I should be glad of your views as to their relation with the British and International Associations, provided of course that after inquiry they prove to be bona fide.
On the other hand I have just received the programme of the annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association, which used to be almost exclusively psa, and am sorry to say that it is less so than formerly. Janet2 and others of this kind are speaking. The Symposium, opened by McDougall, is on the relation between ego-, herd-, and sex-instincts (MacFie Campbell a very lukewarm adherent of ours speaks on the last of these).3
Glover is forming a sub-committee at the Clinic which will probably meet ours to discuss the possibility of amalgamation. The only doubtful point will be over the question of lay analysts, about which there is great opposition among the medical profession here (probably a Verschiebung from other objections to Psa, quackery, etc).