Chapter 4: Letters of 1954

Elvira Strasser Rapaport and Juliet Rapaport in their Stockbridge home, about 1954. (click to enlarge)

Topics Discussed:

• Immediate memory and reminiscence
• Theory of thinking: primary and secondary processes in relation to metapsychology and clinical measurement
• Tension reduction

Plus: Staff Seminar Minutes

Chapter 5: Letters of 1955

Merton M. Gill, Lester B. Luborsky, and Erik H. Erikson, 1954. (click to enlarge)

Topics Discussed:

• Problems of research on psychoanalysis
• Sigmund Koch and the APA’s Project A on theories of psychology
• Rapaport’s decision to do section on psychoanalysis
• Holt’s critique of Rapaport’s drafts of The Structure of Psychoanalytic Theory and his responses
• Methodology of psychoanalysis