Notes

ELISABETH R. GELEERD died on May 25, 1969. A beloved and respected colleague, her loss is deeply felt by all of us: students, colleagues, friends, and not least by the many patients, child and adult, whom she treated in her long experience as a psychoanalyst.

Born in the Netherlands, Dr. Geleerd received her psychoanalytic education in London. She came to the United States in 1940, worked at the Menninger Clinic for over four years, and then transferred to New York. In 1947 she became a training analyst and an active and valuable participant in the training program of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Her contributions to the child analysis curriculum were noteworthy and she became a leader in the new training program in the psychoanalysis of adolescents. Much of the credit for the integration of child development and child analysis into the educational program of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute must go to Elisabeth Geleerd. She was a Fellow of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association and one of the founders of the American Association for Child Psychoanalysis. She was the author of a number of important papers on child analysis and metapsychology, and the editor of The Child Analyst at Work.