(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 April 26 and 27, respectively, 1972, during the Annual 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:
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — Dr. Herbert J. Goldings.
Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research — Dr. John Rainer.
Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, Univ. of Colorado Med. Center — Dr. Stanley S. Weiss.
Division of Psychoanalytic Education, State University of New York, College of Medicine at N.Y.C. — Dr. Richard V. Yazmajian.
Institute of the Philadelphia Association for Psychoanalysis — Dr. Bernard Cowitz.
Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute — Drs. Rudolph Ekstein and Morton Shane (for Child Analysis); and Drs. Heiman Van Dam and Robert Zaitlin.
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Med. — Dr. Roy N. Aruffo.
Seattle Psychoanalytic Institute — Drs. Robert Forman and Gerald Olch.
Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute — Drs. Rose Fromm-Kirsten, Albert H. Schrut, and Kato van Leeuwen (for Child Analysis).
The following Geographic Training Analysts, approved at the Board meeting in December, 1971, were announced:
Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research — Drs. Jacob A. Arlow and Samuel Lanes.
Qualifications for Training Analyst Appointments: It had been brought to the attention of the Board that there was a long-standing discrepancy between the Board's written regulations and established usage regarding the requirement that a training analyst be a member of the Association. Membership in the Association is generally required by the Institutes and is often reflected in their By-Laws, yet a survey by Dr. William Robbins of statements of the Board going back almost twenty years had revealed that “eligibility for membership” rather than actual membership is the exact wording of the criterion that exists in the Board. The Coordinating Committee had recommended that this discrepancy be eliminated by establishing it as a regulation of the Board that membership in the APsaA be a requirement for appointment to the position of training analyst in any Institute accredited by the Association.
In the discussion of this issue, the question was raised in the Board as to whether a training analyst would automatically lose his status as such were he for any reason to resign from the Association. It was held that this would probably be so, but that under such circumstances an Institute would be able to request that an exception be made. The Board voted unanimously to establish membership in the American Psychoanalytic Association as a requirement for eligibility for appointment as a training analyst.
Participant Observers at Membership Committee: Dr. Alan Eisnitz, Chairman of the Committee on Membership, reported on the implementation of a planned arrangement under which Institutes would be invited to send representatives as participant observers to the regular meetings of the Membership Committee. On the day before the meeting of the Board, representatives of the Baltimore-District of Columbia Institute and the Cleveland Institute had worked along with the regular Membership Commitee members in considering several applicants. These Institutes had been selected first on the basis of alphabetical order, and secondly because there were applicants involved who had been graduated by the respective Institutes. The consensus of all concerned was that this was a valuable and mutually informative practice, whose exploration will be continued.
Dr. Eisnitz also recommended that the new Joint Committee of Board and Council to Follow-Up the Katz Report, a committee chaired by Dr. Janice Norton, should send a liaison person to the Membership Committee to sit in on the ongoing deliberations of his Committee. This recommendaion found unanimous support among the Fellows of the Board.
(New members recommended by the Membership Commitee, and subsequently elected at the Meeting of Members, are reported elsewhere in this issue.)
COPE: In reporting for the Committee on Psychoanalytic Education (COPE) Dr. Kenneth Calder, the Chairman, noted that the general philosophy of COPE is that its study groups will remain task-oriented and therefore time-limited. In line with this policy, the Study Group on Supervision will be disbanded following the publication of a book summarizing its years of work. In addition, other study groups are currently in progress or in active planning. The Study Group on Training Analysis will meet in June 1972, while study groups on curriculum and candidate selection are organizing to get under way.
Follow-Up to “Katz Committee:” The Chairman of the Board, Dr. Francis McLaughlin, announced the names of the members of this Committee, whose full name will be the Ad Hoc Joint Committee to Follow-up the Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee on Policies and Problems of Membership. The
Chairman of the new Committee is Dr. Janice Norton, and its members are Drs. Daryl de Bell, Sylvan Reiser, Charles Kligerman, John Mack and Lawrence Roose. The Committee had not yet had its first meeting at the time of the meeting of the Board.
Report of the Editor of the Journal: Dr. John Frosch, Editor of the Journal of the APsaA, expressed concern in his report over the tendency toward a diminution in the number of good scientific papers submitted for publication in the Journal. He deplored the general disinclination to write papers with a distinctly clinical emphasis, and noted that the lack of good clinical papers and short communications on clinical observations is not a reflection of editorial policy. Most of the papers submitted, even those from younger colleagues, tend to be not clinical, but rather attempts at grand revisions of psychoanalytic theory. Dr. Frosch urged that the Fellows and their Institutes concern themselves with encouraging the writing of papers by younger colleagues and by candidates.