Dr. Royden Astley was elected President-Elect of the American Psychoanalytic Association at the Fall Meeting of Members on December 17, 1967. Dr. Astley, who is Director of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has served on many committees of the American Psychoanalytic Association and has headed the Committee on Institutes and Group I for the Study of Curriculum.
From 1961 to 1964 he was Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards and is currently Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Ethics. He is a member of the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Societies and a participant at the Center for Advanced Studies in Psychoanalysis at Princeton. Dr.
Astley's numerous publications reflect his interest in social and ethical issues as related to psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
At the same meeting, Dr. Robert S. Wallerstein was elected Councilor-at-Large. Dr. Wallerstein is a member of the San Francisco and Topeka Psychoanalytic Institutes. He was formerly associated with the Menninger Foundation, where he was Director of Research, and is currently Chief of Psychiatry at Mt. Zion Medical Center, San Francisco, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine.
He is United States Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychological Issues, Archives of General Psychiatry, and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. Like Dr. Astley, Dr. Wallerstein has been a participant in the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies at Princeton, and during 1964-65 he was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He has written extensively about the therapeutic process and about the teaching of psychotherapy.