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British Psycho-Analytical Society
18 December 1924
London
Dear Professor,
In your Rundbrief which arrived today you ask for an extra letter on the subject of Associated Memberships. In London, we are unreservedly pleased with this system, which gives us many advantages. Associate Members are elected year by year and thus can be released if they are not satisfactory. It gives a probation period to test whether they deserve promotion and membership and it affords an opportunity to have associated with us a few workers in other sciences who are seriously interested in psycho-analysis without wishing either to practise or to profess a thorough knowledge of it. It occurs to me on the other hand that the need for such an arrangement may not be so urgent in a Society like that of Berlin, where