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The Western New York Psychoanalytic Society held its first meeting on 8 April, 1961, at the Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York.
In celebration of this Founding Meeting a whole-day scientific session was held. Four papers were presented:
'On Reconstructions in Psychoanalytic Therapy', by Rudolph M. Loewenstein,
'Problems of Modification, Deviation, and Activity in the Framework of Classical Psychoanalytic Technique', by Sandor Lorand,
'The Unconscious Fantasy', by David Beres,
'The Three Superegos of the Western World—Psychoanalytic Notes on Judaism, Catholicism, and Calvinism', by Gerhart Piers.
The Western New York Psychoanalytic Society is an outgrowth of the Western New York Psychoanalytic Group, founded in 1956. The society was accepted as an Affiliate Society of the American Psychoanalytic Association at its annual meeting in May 1960. Officers elected were:
President: Sandor S. Feldman
Secretary-Treasurer: Sidney Rubin.