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Harold Kelman died on March 31, 1977 at the age of 70. He was a creative and tirelessly searching psychoanalytic thinker and writer, an innovative and thoroughly involved teacher, a strikingly astute clinician and fearlessly dedicated leader in psychoanalytic organizations. His professional life exemplified the adventurous new wave of second-generation psychoanalysts which led to the establishment and growth of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
During his training at Yale University and Harvard Medical School he was most impressed by Walter B. Cannon, Hans Zinsser, and Harvey Cushing. After residencies in Neurology, Neuropathology, and Psychiatry at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Montefiore Hospital, he organized a division of Neurology and Psychiatry at the U. S. Marine Hospital on Staten Island. By the time he resigned this position to devote himself fully to psychoanalysis, he had already written about 60 papers on neuropathology and clinical neurology.
Having begun his personal analysis with Dr. Abram Kardiner, Kelman attended the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, where in 1939 he helped organize the first candidates' association, to which