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One hundred participants from the four Nordic countries met at this Congress, which was held at the Scanticon, a congress center, just outside Aarhus.
The day before of the opening of the Congress the Nordic Cooperation Committee held its business meeting. At the meeting, the Nordic Societies' relationship to the IPA and the EPF was discussed, and the members briefed about the situation in their countries. As a special item, some practical and formal problems in relation to the candidates of southern Sweden who are being trained in Copenhagen were debated. It was concluded that this is mainly an internal Swedish problem, as the formalities for the candidates receiving their training in a place other than their native countries have been equalized by the regulations of the IPA. As mentioned in the Editorial Note, the status of The Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review was discussed.
The president of the Danish Psychoanalytic Society, Professor Reimer Jensen, opened the congress. He mentioned inter alia that there still exist grotesque misunderstandings about psychoanalysis. The training of psychoanalysts does not have in view only to teach the application of a certain technique, but to make them understand the complicated psycho-social contexts in which human psycho-pathology emerges and is fixed, and which must be changed in an analytic process.
The scientific program began with a paper read by the distinguished guest from the United States, Professor E. James Anthony, on Shame, Guilt and the Feminine Self in Psychoanalysis.
Professor Anthony started by saying that no matter how neutral the analyst tried to be sub specie aeternatis, in actual practice he can no more be a psychological neuter than a physical one and the biases will assuredly affect his analytic attitude and behavior toward the sex and sexuality of his patient.
Page 95For Freud the feminine psyche was not only difficult to understand psychoanalytically but difficult to treat psychoanalytically. Anthony g