After a discussion which lasted all day at the Boston meeting on May 8, 1968, the Board on Professional Standards voted to accept the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Inc., as a fully accredited Institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association. This conclusion was reached following detailed consideration by the Board of the situation which had arisen in the Case-Western Reserve Institute the preceding summer (1967). The prolonged discussion of this matter was marked by a “thorough consideration of the issues and an avoidance of personal factors” according to the report to the members by the Secretary of the Board, Dr. Seymour Lustman.
Dr. Jacob Arlow, President of the Board of Professional Standards, opened the discussion of the Cleveland situation by reminding the Fellows that he had referred to the question in his report to the Board last December. At the time a special committee chaired by Dr. Samuel Ritvo, President-Elect of the Association, was attempting to determine the facts in Cleveland. The essential question was whether a “split” had occurred when seven of the nine training analysts at the Case-Western Reserve Institute moved their physical locale and formed the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Inc.
Subsequent to the Ritvo Sub-Committee, another sub-committee chaired by Dr. Leo Rangell, former President of the Association, visited Cleveland and reported its findings in March to the Coordinating and Executive Committees. On the basis of these reports and much correspondence, Dr. Arlow felt it advisable to report to the Fellows the conclusion reached by the Executive Committee; namely, that a “split” had occurred. If this opinion were accepted by the Board, then each institute would be eligible to apply to the Board for recognition as a training institute through the Committee on New Training Facilities.
Many fellows of the Board, analysts from the Cleveland offices of the Association, and others were heard in the thorough-going discussions which took the rest of the day. Just prior to a dinner break, the Board declined to follow the recommendation of the Executive Committee, and defeated a motion which stated that a “split” had occurred. Upon reconvening in the evening a motion was then adopted that recognized the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, Inc. as a fully accredited training Institute and authorized its Fellows to be seated as members of the Board on Professional Standards.