Dr. Elizabeth R. Zetzel of Cambridge was awarded the degree of Doctor of Science by Smith College at its commencement exercises this past June. The citation referred to Dr. Zetzel's lifelong devotion to the continuation of Freud's efforts, to her skill as a teacher, physician and psychoanalyst, and to her research activities as Director of the Psychotherapy Study Center, Massachusetts Mental Health Center. Dr. Zetzel was graduated from Smith College in 1928, and spent the next twenty years in England, first in the study of economics and ultimately in medicine. During World War II she was a Major in the British Army Medical Corps, serving as a specialist in psychiatry, returning to the United States in 1949. A member of the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, she is also currently Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard School of Medicine.
The Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research in New York has announced that Dr. Arthur F. Valenstein of Boston will be the third John B. Turner Visiting Professor for the academic year 1968-69. Dr. Valenstein will conduct clinical conferences, seminars on special topics, and colloquia with small groups of students during a period of eleven weeks in the Fall and Spring terms of the academic year. He will also conduct three case seminars for the faculty and graduates of the Clinic, and on April 18, 1969 will give the John B. Turner Annual Lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine. Dr. Valenstein is a Training Analyst in the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and is also a member of the Faculty of the Harvard School of Medicine and of the staff of the Peter Brigham Hospital in Boston.
Dr. S. Mouchly Small, a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and of the APsaA, has been named by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York to the State Advisory Council on Community Mental Health Centers. Dr. Small has for many years been the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the State University School of Medicine at Buffalo.
Dr. Justin D. Call, a member of the APsaA and of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, has been appointed to the position of Chief of Child Psychiatry at the new University of California campus at Irvine, in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, under the chairmanship of Dr. Louis A. Gottschalk. Before accepting this appointment Dr. Call had been on the Faculty of UCLA since 1954.
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute celebrated its 35th Anniversary on October 26, 1968. The occasion was marked by a symposium on “Contemporary Issues of Youth.” The panel speakers included Drs. Fritz Redl, Joseph B. Wheelwright, Charles Pinderhughes and Robert S. Wallerstein.
The Boston Society began as an informal group in 1928. In 1933 it became an official Society and now has a membership of 180. The Institute has about 100 enrolled students. Dr. Elvin V. Semrad is currently the President of the Boston Society and Institute.