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Correspondence from 1928-1939 is wide ranging, including references to the membership and organisation of the International Psychoanalytical Association plus various national and local societies including those in New York, Boston, Vienna, Berlin, Hungary, Switzerland and South Africa. Also discussed are the arrangements for several Congresses and various other meetings. Other letters are regarding the Training Commission (or Committee) and lay analysts, funding for publications and family matters.

From 1933 many letters are concerning the arrangements for the emigration and resettlement of analysts from Germany and other affected states, resulting from Nazi anti-semitism. Specifically discussed are Eitingon’s own emigration to Palestine, the internment of Edith Jacobson in 1935 and difficulties within the American and German societies at this time.

A single item from 1926 is a copy of a letter sent by Eitingon apparently to Albert Moll notifying him that Sigmund Freud would resign from the Ausschuss des Internationalen Kongresses für Sexualforschung (Executive of the International Congress for Scientific Study of Sexuality).

There is also a letter to Eitingon in 1928 from Emil Oberholzer and H Bänziger (president and secretary respectively of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society) in German, which includes a list of society officers and members. Enclosed with the letter is a report of the society, in German.

Amongst all these discussions are frequent references to significant figures in psychoanalysis including Sandor Ferenczi, Sigmund Freud, J H W van Ophuijsen, A A Brill, Anna Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Hans Sachs, Gregory Zilboorg, Karl Abraham, Edward Glover, Joan Riviere, Otto Rank, Theodore Reik, Marie Bonaparte, Carl Müller-Braunschweig, Melanie Klein, Sandor Rado, John Rickman and Felix Boehm.

The final item is a single letter dated 1943 in which Jones refers to conflicts between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein in the British Psychoanalytical Society.

Photocopy of a chapter from a book entitled ‘A Childhood Memory: Time, Place and Subjective Experience’, ('MLN', 1990). This has been annotated by Marion Milner.

Minutes, memoranda and other papers related to a committee established to liaise with the public bodies considering the post-war organisation of the medical profession. Included amongst the earlier papers are three items of correspondence between Bowlby and Ernest Jones regarding the public relations of the Society and a letter from Sylvia Payne regarding Edward Glover's committee work. Amongst the later papers are memoranda produced in response to the report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Medical Education.

The final items in the file are two later memoranda regarding negotiations with the N W Regional Board regarding payment for the treatment of patients at the London Clinic of Psychoanalysis.

Reprint from <i>The British Journal of Medical Psychology</i>.

The documents include cuttings of a series of articles by Valerie Cooper entitled ‘New Physical Fitness’ published in 'New Britain', 1933; copy of Captain C W Sewell, ‘Foot Efficiency’, London, 1924; pamphlet by Ernst Katz entitled 'Meditation: An Introduction'; transcript of a seminar given by Mrs Gerd Boyesen entitled 'Experiences with Dynamic Relaxation of its Discovery to the Reichian Bioenergetic View of Vegetotherapy', 1969; 'The F Matthias Alexander Technique, A Short Introduction' by Patrick M. Macdonald; reprint of an article by Arthur J Deikman entitled 'Experimental Meditation', ('The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease', 1963; pamphlet entitled 'New Life by Breathing, the Knowles Way'; other related newspaper cuttings and notes by Marion Milner.

Typed minutes include date, time & location, chair, secretary, attendees, matters discussed and the date of the next meeting. Minutes are signed by the chair.

Typed minutes include date, time & location, chair, secretary, attendees, matters discussed and the date of the next meeting. Minutes are signed by the chair.