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Explanatory note The following letter has been sent to each member of the American Psycho- analytic Association by five resigning members of the New York Psycho- analytic Society. This letter explains the reasons for their resignation: "Dear Colleague : When five individuals, all members of a professional society, feel impelled, for reasons not of a personal nature, to resign their membership in that society, an explanation to their professional colleagues is an obl;gation upon them and a matter of fundamental importance to those interested in the profession. The resignations are a response to a situation which constitutes a crisis in psychoanalytic education. Psychoanalysis is a young science, still in an experimental stage of its development, full of uncertainties, full of problems to which anything approaching final and conclusive answers is still to be sought. As in all sciences, the solutions of these problems are directly dependent upon more voluminous and keener observations, as well as upon further weighing and consideration of observations already made. Education in any field consists in a passing on from an older to a younger generation of the truth that the older generation believes it has learned, as well as a bequeathing to the younger generation of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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1941 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
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1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01878500
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Abstract

The following letter has been sent to each member of the American Psycho- analytic Association by five resigning members of the New York Psycho- analytic Society. This letter explains the reasons for their resignation: "Dear Colleague : When five individuals, all members of a professional society, feel impelled, for reasons not of a personal nature, to resign their membership in that society, an explanation to their professional colleagues is an obl;gation upon them and a matter of fundamental importance to those interested in the profession. The resignations are a response to a situation which constitutes a crisis in psychoanalytic education. Psychoanalysis is a young science, still in an experimental stage of its development, full of uncertainties, full of problems to which anything approaching final and conclusive answers is still to be sought. As in all sciences, the solutions of these problems are directly dependent upon more voluminous and keener observations, as well as upon further weighing and consideration of observations already made. Education in any field consists in a passing on from an older to a younger generation of the truth that the older generation believes it has learned, as well as a bequeathing to the younger generation of

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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis – Springer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1941

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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