Dedication: Dr. Joan Fleming

A teacher affects eternity;

he can never tell where his influence stops.

Joan Fleming was passionately devoted to teaching and the educational process throughout her distinguished career as a psychoanalyst. She demonstrated that it is possible for the educator to function effectively in the Janus-like position: to conserve what is proven and learned from the past; to modify and add to it through one's own observation, experience, and creative synthesis; and to transmit it to a new generation in a way that will simultaneously preserve what is useful and basic while encouraging new and independent initiative and creativity.

For some of us her impact was direct and personal. As training analyst, supervisor, and classroom teacher she was demanding of adherence to high standards. Some students found her intimidating and chose to avoid her. She could show partiality and favoritism and did not tolerate fools easily or gladly. She could be tough and blunt, but was always clear, incisive, and able to grasp the heart of an issue. She stimulated and challenged students to an appreciation of the elegance and coherence of psychoanalytic ideas.

As Dean of Education for the Chicago Institute she developed and shaped the educational program and policies, and stimulated research into the process of education itself. She was a major force in making psychoanalytic education available to other areas of the country through geographic training arrangements; and in doing this she made sure that the future educators in those geographic training areas became aware of and invested in its problems and processes. In that way, when centers such as Denver, St. Louis, and Cincinnati became autonomous they had a core of teaches already familiar with the processes of psychoanalytic education.

Others have been affected by her in a more indirect way. She offered significant input into the reorganization and structuring of the Board on Professional Standards and served as its chairman for a thre