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The warm glow I experience in receiving this award extends to all of you and to the award committee. I accept the award not only in my own name, but in the name of all of my teachers, psychological and philosophical, literary and scientific, and psychoanalytical, of which Billy Silverberg was one.
Because of my close past associations with Bill Silverberg, I am especially gratified to receive this award and to have an opportunity to speak to you about him and his contributions to psychoanalysis. After graduating from the Washington—Baltimore psychoanalytic training program, Dr. Silverberg asked me to assist him in teaching an introductory course in Freud to candidates in that program. I imagine the fact that Lewis Hill and Harry Stack Sullivan introduced me to him had something to do with his asking me. So, in receiving this award, I feel as Hannah Green must have felt in receiving in 1967 the Fromm-Reichmann award, since like her, I had close associations with the person for whom the award is named. In assisting Billy, I had the benefit of being both a learner and a teacher. Billy commuted from New York to Washington once a month and lectured exceptionally well on some aspect of Freudian psychology. In between his lectures, I led discussions with the candidates involved. Freud took on new and clearer meanings as a result of this experience.
In response to receiving this award, I wish to remind those of you who did not know Billy Silverberg, and also those who did know him, of what sort of man Billy was and of his contributions to psychoanalysis.
He was an educated man, cultured, well read and interested in