Harold Kelman 1906-1977

Harold Kelman died on March 30,1977. He was stricken a year before that with a primary tumor of the brain that rendered him aphasic. Chemotherapy and radiation and an incredibledetermination returned him not only tofunctioning, but to a fluency that enabled him to write and to continue his supervisory work, almost to the end of that year of grace.

His work as teacher, administrator, editor, and writer was intimately connected with the founding and history of the Institute and Association. When Karen Horney, Clara Thompson, Bernard Robbins, Sarah Kelman (Harold Kelman's sister), and Saul Ephron resigned from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1941 to found the American Institute and the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, he was one of the students who left with them. Already an established neurologist and psychiatrist with many publications to his credit, he became an energetic and imaginative leader of the new organizations. He became the mentor of the Auxiliary Council to the Association, a lay organization; he served as president of the Board of Trustees of the Institute, as Editor of this journal, as a member of the Faculty Council, and as Dean of the Institute from 1954 to 1967. He left the Institute in 1967 to found the Psychoanalytic Training Program of the Postgraduate Center, where he was Dean at the time he was stricken.

Dr. Kelman was born in Wallingford, Conn. on May 6, 1906, the youngest of eight children. He received his B.S. from Yale in 1927; his M.D. from Harvard in 1931; and his D.M.S. from Columbia in 1938.

With over 170 contributions to the Psychoanalytic literature, with his dynamic personality, and with his soaring and disciplined mind, he found a worldwide audience. Yetfew knew him intimately. Those who knew him professionally felt the impact of his dedication, his demands on himself and others for integrity and responsibility in work. He both demanded and gave a profound loyalty to students and colleagues, and he was tenacio