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Dear Friends:
The Budapest letter of Feb. 15 has not arrived.
Here the chief event has been an excellent paper by the younger (Edward) Glover before the Society, a detailed criticism of the principles underlying active therapy. Both Glovers have a very strong knowledge of the theory of psa technique and we are grateful to Abraham for sending us what are probably our two best members. I have accepted the paper for the Journal.2 Last night I held a debate before a crowded meeting of the Brit. Psych. Soc. with a conceited halfopponent called Hadfield.3 I was in a good mood for it and do not think there was much question about the result.
Constance Long4, the leading Jungian here, is dead. The other, Nicoll5, is in an institute in Paris for Russian mysticism. Jung plays here much less important a figure than formerly, and Adler has never had any follower here.
Though our progress here is slower than in Berlin, it is steady and sure. It was a very great pleasure to hear of the important steps in the movement of which Abraham reported, and especially to note the readiness for personal sacrifices among the members. The idea, and the way in which it is carried out, seems to me excellent. I think we must be further with our practice before we can think of copying the example here; at the present Glover and I are the only two physicians in England who live entirely from psa work.