Sydney Geoffrey Biddle—1889-1954

Dr. Sydney Geoffrey Biddle of Philadelphia died of coronary thrombosis on October 28th, 1954. He was sixty-five years of age.

One of the first, in 1932, to establish a psychoanalytic practice in Philadelphia, he was a charter member and the first president of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society, Chairman of the Educational Committee. In the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors, Director of the Psychoanalytic Clinic and Instructor in their Institute, and a Fellow of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He had a special interest in conducting a seminar on Methods of Teaching Psychoanalytic Theory for the training of analysts.

Dr. Biddle was a graduate of Groton Preparatory School, Harvard College, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. His interest in psychiatry, which began while working with Macfie Campbell in Boston, led him to Berlin for analysis and to Vienna for further studies with Anna Freud, Aichhorn, and others in psychoanalysis. He had an active clinical practice, made continuous contributions to the maintenance of standards for the development of psychoanalysis, and beyond everything else he was, even as a teacher, a student. Early in his career he made some translations from the German of Franzi, by Frau Herta Fuchs, and a review of Aichhorn's Wayward Youth in This QUARTERLY. Recently he was engaged in research in connection with the selection of candidates for psychoanalytic training and was devoting considerable time and effort to the work of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Although analysis claimed the major share of his interests and energies, he found time to travel widely; he was an enthusiastic rider, mountain climber, swimmer, was active in liberal political circles and in the local grange, had a lively interest in art and music, was devoted to friends and, above all, to students. His reg