News and Proceedings of Affiliate Societies and Institutes

Correspondent: Alvin H. Polatin. Newly Elected Active Members: Drs. Leonard Diamond, Ronald R. Fieve, Eugene Friedberg, Frederick M. Lane, Burton L. Nackenson, George L. Papanek, Robert Silbert, Lawrence C. Thum, Robert S. Walzer.

The following candidates were recently certified in psychoanalysis at the Columbia Clinic: Drs. Arthur H. Green, Donald I. Meyers, David Peretz, Ethel S. Person.

Aaron Stern has been appointed a supervising analyst of the Clinic. At the January 31, 1967 meeting of Clinic supervising and training analysts, Dr. Stern presented a review of the literature on psychoanalytic supervision and the supervisory process.

Recent appointments at the Clinic include: Dr. Max Cohen who succeeds Dr. H. Lee Hall as Student Advisor and Chairman of the Committee on Student Affairs; Dr. Samuel L. Feder succeeds Dr. Henriette R. Klein as Chairman of the Committee on Candidate Selection.

Dr. Jacob A. Arlow will be the second John B. Turner Visiting Professor at the Clinic. His appointment will extend throughout the 1967-1968 academic year.

The Clinic reluctantly accepted the resignation of Dr. H. Lee Hall, Assistant Clinical Professor and training and supervising analyst, who became Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University on August 1, 1966. Dr. Hall's appointment as a geographic training analyst in Atlanta was approved at the fall meetings of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Recently appointed Clinic chairmanships: Dr. Willard M. Gaylin, Committee on Curriculum; Dr. John J. Weber, Committee on Analytic Supervision and Training Analysis; Dr. Lothar Gidro-Frank, Committee on Administrative and Developmental Projects; Dr. Roger McKinnon, Committee on Liaison with Psychiatric Organizations.

Research Seminar Leaders at the Clinic for 1966-1967: E. Kuno Bellar, Ph.D., Temple University; Joseph M. Lubart, M.D., Columbia Unive