(In this section will be given a brief review of the major matters which were taken up at the Board on Professional Standards and the Executive Council at their meetings on December 15 and 16 respectively, 1971, during the last Fall Meeting of the Association. Other matters that were taken up during these meetings are reported in more detail elsewhere in this issue.)
New Training Analysts: The Board approved the appointment of a number of new training and/or supervising analysts. Their names and the names of their Institutes are as follows:
Baltimore-District of Columbia Institute for Psychoanalysis — Dr. Gene Gordon.
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — Dr. S. Joseph Nemetz.
Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis — Dr. John E. Gedo.
Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute — Dr. Edward J. Schiff.
Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research — Drs. Fred Lane, Helen Meyers.
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis— Drs. Herbert S. Gaskill, I. Charles Kaufman.
Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute — Dr. Harry W. Cohen.
Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute — Dr. Lawrence Schwartz.
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute — Dr. Rudolf Ekstein.
The following new Geographic Training Analyst, approved at the Board meeting in December, 1971, was announced:
Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research — Dr. Samuel Lerner.
Committee on Institutes: Dr. Edward M. Weinshel reported that he had investigated the possibility of evaluation of the Periodic Review Program by outside resources and found little support for this. Accordingly, a sub-committee of his Committee will study this program. At the same time he reported that site visits are planned for the Pittsburgh and Michigan Institutes in 1972 and that inquiries have been made with the Seattle and Los Angeles Institutes concerning the possibility of site visits in 1973.
Training for Research: Last spring a group of present and past research candidates had met under the auspices of this Committee and had had an active discussion focused around the computerized data from an analysis as presented by Dr. Hartvig Dahl. The group has decided to continue and to take the title of the “George S. Klein Psychoanalytic Research Forum.” The Committee, which is chaired by Dr. Morton Reiser, sought and obtained from the Board waivers to permit full training for two research candidates, one from the Topeka Institute and one from the Provisional Denver Institute.
Search Committee for a Board Chairman: Dr. Francis McLaughlin, whose term as Chairman of the Board will expire in 1973, sought approval for a search committee to make recommendations as to nominees for election to the Chairmanship of the Board at the conclusion of his term. The Board gave its approval to the naming of this committee. It will be chaired by Dr. Carl Adatto, and will include Drs. James Bing, Alan Eisnitz, Stanley Goodman, Charles Kligerman, and John Weber.
Candidate Representation: The Board had a lengthy discussion on the request from the National Candidates Council (NCC) for representation on committees of the Association. President Wallerstein reminded the Board that candidates are now members of a great many committees of Council but that the question of Board committee membership presented special problems. A number of Fellows felt that this issue should be deferred until action has been taken on the question of candidate membership in the Association. Others felt that there should be some interim action at this time. In the end the Board defeated a motion to have two candidates act as liaison representatives to its meetings.
Approval of Child Analysis Programs: Dr. Calvin F. Settlage, the Chairman of the Committee on Child Analysis, reported that his Committee recommended approval of two additional Child Analysis Programs, those of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute, and of the “Downstate” New York Institute. The Board approved these recommendations unanimously.
New Training Facilities: The Committee on New Training Facilities, chaired by Dr. Homer C. Curtis, reviewed the progress of the various geographic training activities which fall under the purview of this Committee. There are in all eight such geographic training activities: University of North Carolina — Duke, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Emory University, Miami, Houston-Galveston, New Jersey and Portland. Each of these geographic centers is under the sponsorship of one of the accredited Institutes of the Association.
The Denver Institute, which has had provisional status since May 1969, has now established itself as a strong and growing Institute. Early in the present year there will be a site visit to Denver with the anticipation that full Institute status will be recommended at the next meeting of the Board.