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The panel combined an unusual number of relevant fields. Gerard Fountain, the chairman, was formerly dean of Sarah Lawrence and a college psychiatrist. William Peltz, professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, has been a member of GAP on College Students, a psychiatric consultant to two boys boarding schools, and on the discipline committee at Penn. Lore Rubin is a psychoanalyst and a consultant to the University of Pittsburgh Student Health Service. Neil Smelser, a professor of sociology and former assistant chancellor for educational development at Berkeley, is also a research training candidate at the San Francisco psychoanalytic institute. He has experience in student therapy and has served as a consultant on student political activities. Benson R. Snyder was psychiatrist-in-chief at MIT for ten years and is now dean of institute relations. He has worked with GAP, was a consultant at Wellesley and a trustee at Antioch. In addition, Fountain hoped for participation by the audience, which contained many people with student and college experience.
Fountain suggested two areas for discussion: the potential contribution of the psychoanalyst, whether on or off the campus, to the student, individually, and to the functioning of the university as the environment of the student; and possible psychoanalytic contributions to an understanding of the specific problems encountered on the campus these days, particularly student dissent.
Smelser, the only member of the panel asked to present a brief prepared discussion, began with an emphasis upon the many separate functions of the university—generation of knowledge, public service through training, allocation of labor to the skilled labor force, socialization, entertainment. Hence the complexity of the problems that arise when we relate psychoanalysis to the university environment. He dealt with four areas:
1Relation to student health services and student therapy. In the vast majority of cases