An oral history workshop was held on December 15 during the Fall Meeting of the Association in New York. Chairman Arcangelo R. T. D'Amore noted that it was the eighth in a series which began in May, 1974, in Denver where Rene Spitz described his analysis with Sigmund Freud in 1910, and the first workshop on research in psychoanalysis. Peter H. Knapp reviewed the 75 year relationship between experimentation and psychoanalysis. His presentation included slide projections and a brief mention of his own research in Boston. George H. Pollock described research conducted at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1932 to the present. He stated that Franz Alexander had in mind the creation of a psychoanalytic scientific community, and was successful in this objective. The Institute continues in this tradition.

Albert J. Solnit spoke of the early history of psychoanalysis in the Yale-New Haven area when the Institute for Human Relations existed, and Edward Sapir advised many to get psychoanalyzed. The Yale Child Study Center was founded in 1948 and has been very productive of research work for three decades. Robert S. Wallerstein stated that research began in the 1930s in Topeka where the model of a research institute was fulfilled, and which served as a launch pad for many who went elsewhere. In 1947 Robert Knight took Rapaport, Gill, Brenman and Schaefer with him to Austen Riggs in Stockbridge. Wallerstein was involved in the Psychotherapy Research Project in Topeka before leaving in 1966 for San Francisco. He explained how the Fund for Psychoanalytic Research of the Association was organized and how it functions. Sanford Gifford, workshop coordinator, led off the lively discussion that followed.

A second oral history workshop on research in psychoanalysis will be held next December in New York. The Committee on History and Archives would appreciate receiving suggestions and copies of papers relevant to the history of psychoanalysis.