Dr. Grete L. Bibring, a past President of the A.Psa.A., was honored twice during the spring of 1968. In May, Dr. Bibring was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the following month she received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass.
Dr. Bibring has published extensively during her long career as a psychoanalyst, her publications dealing with clinical problems, theory, research, and training. Her term as President culminated many years of active service to the Association. In addition she was, until her recent retirement, Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. She continues in active practice in that city.
Dr. Martin Berezin, currently Chairman of the Arrangements Committee of the Association, and a member of the Newsletter staff, is the Editor-in-Chief of the new Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the official publication of the Boston Society for Gerontologic Psychiatry. Dr. Sidney Levin, also a member of the A.Psa.A., is the Associate Editor, and a number of well-known psychoanalysts (among them Dr. Grete L. Bibring) are on the Editorial Board.
Dr. Berezin is also currently President of Northern New England District Branch of the A.P.A.