To the Editor:

In the article of the June 1981 Newsletter a description of my impressions as retiring Chairman of COPE had several inaccuracies. One sentence was reported as follows: “When Institutes function well, they seem to be grounded on five basic tenets: concepts of the dynamic unconscious, conflict, infantile sexuality, growth and sequential development in transference.” The corrected sentence should be: “When Institutes function well, they seem to be grounded on five basic tenets: the concepts of the dynamic unconscious, conflict, infantile sexuality, growth as sequential development, and transference.' These tenets were derived from a study on the natural history of institutes chaired by Dr. James Bing.

There was an important omission in the last paragraph describing problems in the profession of child analysis. In my report I noted that child analysis is virtually destroyed where institutes fail to adequately demonstrate the distinction between analysis and psychotherapy.

Samuel Abrams, M.D.

New York