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DR. Elizabeth Kilpatrick, former Dean of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and former President of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, passed away on November 11, 1969 after a long illness at her home in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She had been living there in semi-retirement for the past ten years, having left New York City after a long and varied career in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. She was associated with the Dalhousie University in Halifax and she also conducted a part-time private practice for several years there.
Dr. Kilpatrick was born in Canada and was educated at the Dalhousie University and Medical School. She worked in various psychiatric hospitals in the United States and Nova Scotia until 1924, when she returned to school for one year, receiving an M.D. degree from the Long Island College of Medicine in New York City. She worked as a psychiatrist in the New York Hospital from 1925 to 1938, and began her analytic training at the New York Institute for Psychoanalysis. This training was completed at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1942. During this time she worked with Doctors Karen Horney, Muriel Ivimey, Clara Thompson, Bernard Robbins and Erich Fromm. Among her instructors and associates she also counted Doctors Sandor Rado, Abraham Kardiner, Gregory Zilborg, William Silverberg and Harmon Ephron.
Dr. Kilpatrick served the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis in many capacities, including the presidency. In 1959 she was unanimously elected to Honorary Membership. She was Lecturer, Training and Supervising Analyst at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and in 1953, upon the death of Karen Horney, she assumed the deanship of the Institute.
Elizabeth Kilpatrick was not only our colleague and teacher, but also our dearest friend. When she left New York in 1959, many felt that the very special