Seymour L. Lustman, M.D—1920-1971

Dr. Seymour Lustman of New Haven died on August 5, 1971, as the result of a sailboat accident while vacationing in Maine. A graduate of the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, he was a member of its Education Committee and a training analyst. He held office in both the Institute and the Society, and had been Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Lustman was Professor of Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at the Yale Medical School. Shortly before his death he was appointed Master of Davenport College in Yale University; he had been the Acting Master during the 1969-70 year of student unrest when he distinguished himself by his wisdom, tact, and firmness of principle in a period of stress and potential danger.

Dr. Lustman was born in Chicago. An early interest in art lasted all his life; with his keen appreciation of painting, went an equal concern for contemporary artists. He received his Ph.D. degree in psychology at the University of Chicago, and his M.D. at the University of Illinois. In teaching psychiatry and psychoanalysis he applied the exacting standards that he also imposed on himself as scientist and practitioner, while ready to recognize and acknowledge his students' merits. We who worked as his colleagues were both taxed and inspired by his demands for excellence, and we were warmed by his kindness and humor. Dr. Lustman, who had been a consultant for the National Institute of Mental Health, was always ready to listen to the new in his field, but he was also highly sensitive in detecting the spurious, the propagation of which he opposed vigorously. The author of many articles on psychoanalytic theory and education, he was an editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

Dr. Lustman was married to Katharine Ritman, co-director of the Nursery School of the Child Study Center at Yale. In addition to his mother and his