Albert Slutsky—1895–1946

The news of Dr. Slutsky's sudden death in November 1946 has saddened all who knew him. For many years Dr. Slutsky had not been in good health, and illness in his family weighed heavily upon him; yet, it was unthinkable that we should so soon be deprived of him—the friendliness, the warmth, the serenity of his being.

Dr. Slutsky immigrated to the United States from Russia in 1908. In New York City he attended high school where he was an honor student and for distinction in the subjects of mathematics and science, he was awarded a scholarship in engineering to the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute which he attended one year. The impersonal and material nature of a career in engineering proved unsatisfying to him, for he longed to work with mankind. In 1915, he matriculated at the Fordham University School of Medicine and was graduated a doctor of medicine in 1920. Internships at the Beth David and the St. Francis Hospitals in New York City followed his graduation; general practice then engaged him until 1925. In that year he began his formal psychiatric career as psychiatric resident in Kings Park and later as senior psychiatrist at Manhattan State Hospital.

In 1926 Dr. Slutsky married, and in 1927, with his wife, went to Vienna for his personal analysis and psychoanalytic training at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. At this same time, he carried on two years of postgraduate work in psychiatry under Wagner von Jauregg, Schilder and others at the Psychiatric Faculty of the University of Vienna.

He completed his supervised analytic work in New York in 1932, when he was elected to membership in the New York Society. At this time, he published a paper, Interpretation of a Resistance: The Analytic Treatment as a Neurotic Defense in This QUARTERLY.

The Training Committee recognized his talent and ability as a training analyst and instructor and appointed him to that committee. Dr. Slutsky carried on didactic analyses and conducted