ABSTRACT

A major spin-off from Committee on Scientific Activities was the creation, in 1976, of the American Psychoanalytic Association's (APsaA) Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, a fund financed in its first years by voluntary contributions from members of the APsaA but now built into the ongoing dues structure. This was, for the first time, a fund created specifically to support psychoanalytic research—albeit in only modest amounts—and application was not limited to members of the APsaA. Several discussion visits were made to Bethesda by a group of Collaborative Analytic Multi-site Program (CAMP) representatives to meet with various members of the National Institute of Mental Health hierarchy. The members had come to know each other as working colleagues and to know the scope of each other's scientific work, and small collaborative projects had been undertaken, essentially combining the instruments from two or more of the CAMP subgroups in conjoined research programmes.