ABSTRACT
In this chapter author contributes the history of the International Psychoanalytical Association over its first century of existence. The years of author presidencies spanned from 1969 to 1973, which included the historic Vienna Congress of 1971 and the important following one in Paris in 1973. The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) voted to accept the invitation of the Vienna Society to hold its next congress in Vienna, for the first time in the city where the new science had been born and from which it had suffered its infamous rejection. The Rome/van der Leeuw/Anna Freud move confronted at the Vienna Congress was an attempt to revise that loss. This was not unexpected, considering the previous action of the Dutch Society. The Executive Board received this request and, with full appreciation of the difficulties in this path, treated it with a prompt and straightforward response.
