Dr. Samuel Ritvo was elected President-Elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association at the Fall Meeting of Members on December 18, 1966. Dr. Ritvo, who is a charter member and past President of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society is current President of its Institute. He is a Training Analyst in both the New York and Western New England Institutes. In the Association he has served on many committees and was Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards from 1958 to 1961. The author of numerous scientific papers, he is a Fellow of the Board and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal.
At Yale University, Dr. Ritvo is Clinical Professor at the Child Study Center and the Department of Psychiatry and was Chief Psychiatrist of the Center from 1950 to 1964.
Also elected to office at the same time were: Dr. Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin as Secretary; Dr. Edward D. Joseph as Treasurer; and Dr. Arthur F. Valenstein as Councilor at Large.
Dr. Pumpian-Mindlin is at present Councilor at Large of the Association and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal. He has been a Fellow of the Board and has served on a number of committees. In 1955 he became a Training Analyst in the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He has contributed chapters to a number of publications. At the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine he is Professor and Acting Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry.
Dr. Joseph is Secretary of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and a Training Analyst and course instructor at the New York Institute. He has been a Councilor of the Association since 1961, and is Chairman of the Committee on Social Problems. Dr. Joseph has published a number of scientific papers. He is an Associate Attending Psychiatrist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Dr. Valenstein has been a Councilor of the Association, a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal, and a member of a variety of committees. He is currently Associate Secretary of the International Psycho-Analytical Association. In his own Institute, Boston, he is a Training Analyst. He has published in the psychoanalytic literature. Dr. Valenstein is a Clinical Associate in Psychiatry at Harvard University.
At the meeting of the Board on Professional Standards on December 14, 1966, Dr. Seymour Lustman was elected Secretary of the Board. Dr. Lustman is a Training Analyst in the Western New England Institute and has held a number of posts in the Association; he has published extensively in the scientific literature. He is currently Professor and Research Director at the Yale University Child Study Center and Department of Psychiatry.
The newly elected officers will take office at the time of the Annual Meeting in May, 1967. The Newsletter extends to them its congratulations and good wishes.