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467F
Vienna, Berggasse 19
15 December 1924
Circular letter Nr. I
Dear Friends,
We inaugurate the correspondence today, the interruption of which I deeply regretted. The newly entered member, my daughter and secretary, appreciates the recognition.
We want to inform you that the Society has at its last meeting decided for Lucerne and prefers the first half of the month of September as the time for the Congress to all other settings. Probably the other Societies will express similar opinions. Frau Dr Deutsch, who is still under the after-effects of her Berlin impressions, has come forward with the plan to found a Training Institute, which is independent of the management of the polyclinic. It shall set up the teaching curriculum, take on the referral of patients to their analysts, and carry out the control-analyses of the trainees. It shall consist in its organization of three members, representative, deputy, and secretary, and the people lecturing shall be affiliated as the teaching staff. Frau Dr Deutsch has suggested herself as head of the training institute, Dr Bernfeld as deputy, and as secretary Anna Freud. The names of the lecturers are known. This proposal was approved of in a meeting of the committee of the Society and is negotiated today, the 15th, at a business meeting. It is expected that despite