Dr. Robert S. Wallerstein of San Francisco was elected to the post of President-Elect of the Association at the meeting of members held on December 14, 1969. At the same time Dr. Seymour L. Lustman of New Haven was elected Councilor-at-Large. Dr. Wallerstein will take office at the Annual Meeting in May, 1970, at which time the present President-Elect, Dr. Albert J. Solnit, will move up to the Presidency.
Dr. Wallerstein has held a variety of key positions in the Association. Most recently he has chaired the Committee on Training for Research, of which he has been a member since 1960. At the time of his election he was a Councilor-at-Large. He has
been a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the APsaA since 1965. In the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute Dr. Wallerstein is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a member of the Educational Committee.
Since 1966 he has held the post of Chief of Psychiatry at the Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center in San Francisco, and is concurrently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California School of Medicine and Langley-Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute. Before taking up his position in San Francisco, Dr. Wallerstein had been for a number of years Director of Research at the Menninger Foundation and was a principal investigator of the psychotherapy research project at that institution.
He has been the U. S. editor of the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and a member of the editorial board of Psychological Issues, the Archives of General Psychiatry, and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. He has contributed extensively to the literature of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.
Dr. Lustman, the newly elected Councilor-at-Large, is currently the Secretary of the Board on Professional Standards, his term scheduled to terminate in May, 1970. He is a Supervising and Training Analyst at the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute, and is the Secretary of its Educational Committee. Dr. Lustman holds the title of Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University, and is the Master of Davenport College there. He is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the APsaA, of Psychosomatic Medicine, and the Journal of Child Psychiatry. He is one of the Editors of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and has an extensive bibliography.