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The International Psycho-Analytical Association announces, with profound regret, the death of its Honorary President, Dr Heinz Hartmann, on the morning of 17 May 1970. Dr Hartmann was President of the Association from 1953 to 1959, and its Honorary President from 1959 until the time of his death.
The following words were spoken by Dr Leo Rangell, President, on behalf of the International Psycho-Analytical Association, at the Memorial Service for Dr Hartmann held in New York City on 19 May 1970:
I wish to express the sorrow and grief of the members of the International Psycho-Analytical Association on the passing of their Honorary President in his country home at Stony Point, New York. Dr Heinz Hartmann was the Honorary President, and the loved leader of psychoanalysts everywhere, long before this title was put to paper.
In 1939, Sigmund Freud died. That same year, Dr Hartmann published a small monograph, delivered in Vienna two years earlier, which announced a new phase in the understanding of man and which defined the direction of the next three decades. Subsequent history showed that in that year the baton had been passed between the two men.
Five years ago, on the occasion of Dr Hartmann's 70th birthday, I was assigned the privilege of abstracting Dr Hartmann's scientific output for the psychoanalytic public. I found myself in a mine where one could reach out and lift a precious gem at will.
Heinz Hartmann stood on a mountain, built just before his time, preserved its base, cleared its top, and built it almost twice as high. From its height he always had perspective, scope, and an overall view.
His capacity—no, his very nature—to integrate, build, bridge and organize has become synonymous with his name. He unified the past with the present, the child with the adult, the inside with the outside, the special with the general, the normal with the most disturbed.
Such unification had always a soothing as well as clarifying effect. It enabled one to accept weakness b