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 REPORTS 133

1. A many years' study of psycho-analytical literature,

2. Analysis by a competent physician,

3. Constant contact with a competent physician.

A teacher who is a competent analyst and thus thoroughly pre- pared for his work will in certain cases feel it his moral duty to help where he knows he has the means to hand. But he should proceed with the greatest care ■ and tact, he should be contented as a rule with a symptom-analysis, and not start upon an analysis of the sexual complex unless he wishes to risk the loss of hjs position. In the case of less healthy children, whose mal-develop- ment requires a somewhat deeper analysis, he should begin by coming to an arrangement with their parents.

Meeting on November 18, ipsi.

Present : Furrer, Ftirst, Grilninger, Hofmann, Kielholz, Liithy, Minkowski, E. Oberholzer, M. Oberholzer, Pfister, Wehrii, and visitors.

New Member : H. ZuUiger, Ittigen near Bern.

Dir. Dr. A. Kielholz; 'Schizophrenic Inventors'.

Changes of Address:

Dr. H. Behn-Eschenburg, Kantonspital Herisau.

Dr. M. Geiser, Dufoursfrasse 39, B^e.

E. Ltithy, Birsigstrasse 76, Bale.

Dr. H. Meier-MUIler, Fiisslisb-asse 4, Zurich.

Dr. F. Morel, 8 Rue Beauregard, Genfeve.

Dr. R. de Saussure, Asile de Cery, pres Lausanne.

THE VIENNA PSYCHO-ANALYTICAL SOCIETY

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1. October 12, ipsi. Dr. Prinzhoro (Heidelberg) as visitor: On drawings by the mentally deranged and by primitive peoples.

The lecturer presented a collection of spontaneously created pictures drawn by uninstructed mentally deranged patients of the psychiatric clinic at Heidelberg. These are attempts at representation of form uninfluenced by tradition or schooling; the draughtsmen, that is JS^U of them, are suffering from schizophrenia. The lecturer