The International Psychoanalytical Association held its 27 th Congress in Vienna at the end of July, 1971. The event was filled with history and drama, marking as it did a return to the city in which psychoanalysis had its inception and which had rejected the new science and its founder, Sigmund Freud. The sense of drama was heightened by the fact that Miss Anna Freud came to Vienna for the Congress — her first visit to her native city since she fled with her father in 1938.

Some 2,500 registrants — a record — gathered to hear discussions of the Congress topic: Aggression.

In the social and ceremonial functions, officials of the Austrian and Viennese governments extended themselves to acknowledge and make amends for the rejection of one of Vienna's most illustrious citizens. (See report on page 3.)

At the business meeting, chaired by IPA President Rangell, the next Congress was set for Paris, in February or March of 1974; the IPA members will be polled as to whether to hold the following meeting in America.