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The meeting of the Board on Professional Standards of the AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION was held in New York City, December 14, 1946, Bertram D. Lewin, M.D., President, presiding; Secretary, Robert P. Knight, M.D.
After due consideration of the proposed curriculum, list of training analysts an faculty, and pledge to abide by the minimal standards, the applications for admission to the American Psychoanalytic Association of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, the San Francisco Institute for Psychoanalysis, and the Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research of Columbia University, New York, were unanimously approved.
It was the consensus of the Board that it would rely on the appraisals and recommendations of individual Institutes regarding their graduates, and thus would not regard itself as an examining board for individual applicants.
The following resolution was passed with one dissenting vote: Whereas, it is the opinion of the American Psychoanalytic Association that the practice of psychotherapy is a medical function, therefore, be it resolved: That paragraph