ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the establishment of The International Journal as the official organ and united voice of the International Journal of Psycho-analysis (IPA), and how in this role it has provided a central framework for debate of the essential differences of views, theoretical and clinical, that exist among IPA members. Dr. Rank explained the circumstances connected with the foundation of the “International Journal of Psycho-analysis”. Dr. Stern and Dr. Bryan, as Secretaries of the New York and British Societies respectively, expressed their approval of the Journal in the name of their Societies. The meeting thereupon unanimously accepted the Journal as one of the official organs of the Association. The relationship between the Journal debates and the analytic community has been reciprocal. The Journal presents debates in the analytic community but also encourages them. The 1927 publication of a series of papers on “lay analysis” is an interesting case in point.
