Dr. Leo Rangell, Past President of the American and International Psycho-Analytical Associations, addressed a combined meeting of the Oregon Psychoanalytic Foundation and the Oregon Psychiatric Association in Portland, Oregon, on April 23, 1982. The subject of Dr. Rangell's address was “The Problem of Integrity.”

Calling for a strong inclusion of ego-superego interaction into the total field of conflicts with which psychoanalysis is concerned, Dr. Rangell proposed a number of novel theoretical statements. He asserted that neurosis is to psychosis as the compromise of integrity is to psychopathy and crime; that the Watergate complex is on a par with the Oedipus complex in human motivation; that there are “borderline” cases between neurosis and compromise of integrity as much as between neurosis and psychosis; and that “the price of civilization” today, 50 years after Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, is the compromise of integrity as much as it is neurosis.