Monroe A. Meyer

Dr. Monroe A. Meyer died in February 1939 in his forty-seventh year, having been born in New York in 1892. He graduated in 1916

and held an important post in the neuro-psychiatric division of one of the American base hospitals in France during the last war. In 1921–22 he studied with Freud in Vienna, and returned to practise in New York. From 1932 onwards he devoted himself to the work of building up the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. The following sentences are quoted from the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. VIII, 1939, pp. 139-140: 'His death takes from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute the man who more than any one else had given to it his time and thought and energy. It was his incessant watchfulness which made the Institute function smoothly and effectively. During the last seven years of his life, the major portion of his time had gone into the exacting task of guiding it in its growth from a small, informal unit with a dozen students to a highly organized teaching institution with seventy students. Those of his colleagues who had had an opportunity to know the depth of his analytic penetration and learning often regretted that during those years his scientific energies were not freer from the burden of these administrative responsibilities. He himself felt so keenly, however, that it was important to set the Institute firmly on its feet, that no personal sacrifice seemed to him too great to make. … His colleagues will hold him in grateful and affectionate remembrance always.'