The seventh oral history workshop on April 28 during the Annual Meeting of the Association in Quebec had an interesting format. Chairman Frank H. Parcells combined live presentations on the history of psychoanalysis in the Midwest with segments of videotape interviews of pioneers. The Portraits in Psychoanalysis series of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis supplied videotapes of Helen McLean, Helen Ross, and Therese Benedek, to which Parcells added his own taped interview of Leo Bartemeier.

Douglass W. Orr reminisced on Chicago and Topeka in the 1930s up to his departure for Seattle in 1941. Hamill, Blitzsten, Alexander and others became more than just names as he conveyed the tenor of their times. The histories of several midwestern societies and institutes were presented. Karl Menninger was the first graduate of the Chicago Institute. Irwin C. Rosen described the growth in Topeka. By 1949 the Topeka Institute had 54 candidates. In contrast Harry E. August's description of what happened in Detroit was a tale of woe, with problems even before the disaccrediation blow in 1953.

Justin Krent described Cleveland as a mixture of conflict, accomplishment and disappointment. Paul A. Dewald told of developments in St. Louis resulting in a separate Institute approved in 1976. Brandt Steele portrayed the development of psychoanalysis in Denver as drawing analysts from several cities, and developing more smoothly as a division in the medical school's department of psychiatry under Herbert Gaskill's leadership.

The importance of Chicago to the development of psychoanalysis elsewhere in the Midwest was manifest during both the videotape interviews, and the live presentations.