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While this issue of the Quarterly was in press, news came of the death of one of our editors, Dr. Herbert F. Waldhorn. He died suddenly on 16 June 1981 of a cardiac arrest due to the chronic arterial disease which had cast a shadow over his life and had forced him to limit his activity progressively for a dozen years before his untimely death.
Dr. Waldhorn was a New Yorker born and bred. He attended Columbia College and New York University Medical School, from which he graduated in 1942. He was on active military duty as a psychiatrist from 1943 to 1946, serving first in the army and later in the Office of Strategic Services. For him, as for many of his contemporaries, discharge from the army was the beginning of his career as a psychoanalyst. He enrolled in the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, from which he was graduated in 1952 and where he later became a training and supervising analyst. From 1961 to 1963 he was secretary of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. He served on many committees of both Society and Institute during his professional career, notably as a director of the Society and as an editor of the Monograph Series of the Ernst Kris Study Group of the Institute. In addition, he was active in the affairs of the American Psychoanalytic Association, where he served on the Program Committee for several years and as secretary of the Association from 1965 to 1968. For a number of years before his death he was actively involved in the resident training program of the Hillside Hospital. In 1975 he joined the Editorial Board of the Quarterly, becoming its book review editor in 1979.
Dr. Waldhorn published several articles in the field of psychoanalysis as well as many summaries, reviews, panel reports, and critiques. Notable among them are a paper on assessment of analyzability, which appeared in Volume 29 of the Quarterly,