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Harmon S. Ephron, one of the founders of the Association of Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, died at his home in Kendall Park, New Jersey, on February 12, 1992. He was 97 years old. Dr. Ephron served as psychoanalyst, supervisor, and mentor to literally generations of psychoanalysts.
Harmon, who was called “Sol” by his family and friends, was one of the famed five psychoanalysts who resigned from the New York Psychoanalytic Society in protest over the society's effort to curb the technical and theoretical innovations of Karen Horney. In the early years of the association, he co-taught institute courses with Karen Horney and Erich Fromm at the New School for Social Research.
In 1943, Dr. Ephron was one of the founders of the Postgraduate Training Program in Psychoanalysis at New York Medical College, the first psychoanalytic training program ever to be instituted in a medical college. He served as training and supervising psychoanalyst there for over 25 years. Later he was twice president of the Society of Medical Psychoanalysts.
In his old age with his wry self-knowledge, canny wisdom, and deep understanding of human nature, Dr. Ephron possessed a particular beauty. Like the sun at its setting fills the sky with a panorama of color, he radiated the presence of a spirit who lived and embraced life to its fullest.
Dr. Harmon Saul Ephron is survived by his wife, Patricia Carrington Ephron, Ph. D.; his daughter, Ethel Ephron Sherman of St. Louis, Mo.; his son, Eugene H. Ephron, M.D., of Vista, Calif.; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.