The National Association of Psychoanalytic Candidates and Clinical Associates became the official name of the former National Candidates Council at the December, 1973 meeting when new By-laws were adopted.
The new By-laws list the following objectives and purposes of the NCPCCA:
To facilitate communication among psychoanalytic students throughout the country.
To promote and elevate the standards of psychoanalytic education by sharing the experiences and views of psychoanalytic students and recent graduates among themselves and with the official organizations of psychoanalysis.
To represent the students of psychoanalysis in their collective dealings with other organizations.
To study problems of psychoanalytic education and to promote and advance the interests of psychoanalytic students.
To cooperate with the official organizations of psychoanalysis in an effort to study and advance the theory and practice of psychoanalysis, to foster integration of psychoanalysis with other branches of medicine and with other fields of scientific endeavor, and to promote the science of psychoanalysis for the benefit of mankind.
A new committee of the APsaA, the Ad Hoc Committee on Affiliate and Associate Membership met with officers of the National Council of Psychoanalytic Candidates and Clinical Associates on Saturday, May 4, 1974 in Denver, Colorado. The members of the Committee include: Dr. Francis McLaughlin, Chairman; Dr. Stanley Goodman, and Dr. Leonard Shengold.
The officers of the NCPCCA who met with the committee were: Drs. Stanley Stern, Barbara Deutsch and Linn Campbell.
Issues discussed included: why more candidates/clinical associates are not becoming Affiliate Members; representation for candidate/clinical associates within the American; and the possibility of the NCPCCA as a future affiliate section of the APsaA.
The committee plans to meet again in December.
Officers:
President-Elect
Barbara G. Deutsch, M.D.
(Downstate)
Treasurer
G. Pirooz Sholevar, M.D.
(Philadelphia Association)
Treasurer-Elect
Eleanor Sorrentino, M.D.
(Washington)
Secretary
Linn Campbell, M.D.
(San Francisco)
Secretary-Elect
Arnold Rogow, Ph.D.
(New York)
Stanley Stern, M.D. (Western New England) assumed the office of President at the Spring meeting, 1974.