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The NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY on January 21, 1947, unanimously adopted the resolution presented by Dr. Carl Binger:
RESOLVED: That the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry be organized into two Sections, one to be called the Section of Clinical Psychiatry, and the other to be called the Section for Social Psychiatry, each of these sections to have as administrative officers a chairman and secretary who, while in office, will serve as members of the Council of the Society. The committee also unanimously proposed the following recommendations and suggestions for consideration by the Council of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry and presentation to the membership for action: (1) That the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry become a regional organization of the American Psychiatric Association, and that, contingent upon the requirements of the American Psychiatric Association, members of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry not qualified for membership in the American Psychiatric Association be put in a special class as affiliate or associate members of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry. (2) That hereafter the Council of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry be comprised of the President, Vice-President, Secretary-Treasurer, the Chairmen and Secretaries of the two Sections, the recently retired President of the Society, and a member of the Society elected at large. (3) That each Section of the Society have autonomy as to order of business (number and dates of meetings, programs, appointment of committees and subcommittees). That at meetings, either of each Section independently, or of meetings of the entire Society, the business program be