ABSTRACT
A good deal of debate focused on the question whether the major scientific forums of the Association—the meetings and the Journal— could be improved in the service of increasing the quality of scientific production in the central areas of psychoanalytic research. A Committee on Scientific Activities would in essence have no executive functions, but it may submit practical suggestions to the Council, which might then create action committees—either as subcommittees of the Committee on Scientific Activities or independent of it. This involves reorganization of the American Psychoanalytic Association as the embodiment of the tenet that the three major areas with which organized psychoanalysis is concerned—the professional, the educational, and the scientific—should have equal representation. The advantages of reorganization are obvious: Setting up a scientific branch would put scientific activities on a level of importance equal with the professional responsibilities of the Association and with its concern for educational matters.
