At its meeting in Dallas on April 26, 1972, the Board on Professional Standards elected Dr. Edward M. Weinshel of San Francisco to serve as Chairman of the Board. The new Chairman-Elect will take office in the spring of 1973. The Board balloted after receiving a report from its Search Committee, which recommended the names of Dr. Homer C. Curtis and Dr. Weinshel.
Dr. Edward D. Joseph assumed the office of President at the Meeting of Members on Saturday, taking over the gavel from Dr. Robert Wallerstein.
Meeting on Thursday, April 27, the Executive Council, sitting as a nominating committee, made the following nominations: for President-Elect, Drs. Kenneth Calder and George H. Pollock; for Secretary, Drs. Martin A. Berezin and Leon Ferber; for Treasurer, Drs. Alex H. Kaplan and Henry I. Schneer; for Councilor-at-Large, Drs. Homer C. Curtis, Paul A. Dewald, Robert M. Dorn, and William S. Robbins. The Council also elected Dr. Malvina Stock as Councilor-at-Large to complete the term of office of the late Dr. Seymour Lustman. (Subsequent to the Council meeting, Dr. Leon Ferber withdrew his name as nominee for Secretary and Dr. John Weber was nominated by petition.)
The new Chairman-Elect of the Board has been a member of the APsaA since 1961 and a Fellow of the Board since 1969. He has served on many committees of the Association and has been Chairman of the
Committee on Institutes since 1969; he is also completing a second three-year term as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the APsaA.
In his own Institute, the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, Dr. Weinshel is a training and supervising analyst. At the 27th Congress of the International Psychoanalytic Association, which was held in Vienna in 1971, Dr. Weinshel was the Secretary of the Program Committee.
In addition to his extensive activities in local and national psychoanalytic bodies, the new Chairman-Elect has been engaged as well in hospital and academic work in psychiatry. He was Chief of the Dept. of Psychiatry at Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center (San Francisco) from 1961-66. Currently he is Director of Training in that Department. He also holds the title of Associate Clinical Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry of the University of California's School of Medicine. He has been a frequent participant in the scientific programs of the Association and has authored papers on tinnitus, regression, transference neurosis, moods, and normality.
In the course of Dr. Wallerstein's remarks introducing Dr. Joseph and Dr. Joseph's responding comments, some coincidences in the careers of these two men emerged: they had both begun their work in psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, where Dr. Joseph was the first resident in the newly formed Department of Psychiatry and Dr. Wallerstein became a resident the following year. Their paths subsequently diverged and now Dr. Wallerstein is the Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco, while Dr. Joseph is the Clinical Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.
This transcontinental meeting of two men who had started their psychiatric lives together, and who are now somewhat similarly occupied at opposite ends of the country, was concluded by Dr. Joseph's presentation to Dr. Wallerstein of a gift on behalf of the Association — an engraved wristwatch.
We have learned that Dr. Edward Glover died last August; details are not available at this time. The distinguished British psychoanalyst had made important and early contributions to ego psychology and to the theory of psychoanalytic technique.