A member of the American Psychoanalytic Association since 1953, the President-Elect, Alex H. Kaplan, has been active in association affiairs since the mid-1960's. He has been an Executive Counselor, has served on the Committees on Arrangements and on Public Information as well as on the Newsletter. He has been Treasurer of the Executive Committee since 1971, involved with the Conference on Psychoanalytic Education and Research from 1973 to 1974 and with the fund for Psychoanalytic Research since 1976.
In St. Louis, he was the medical director of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Foundation for eight years. Since 1973 he has been the associate medical director of the Institute. He was the first president of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society, serving from 1966 to 1968, and since 1970 has been a faculty member of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and a member of the Educational Committee.
Doctor Kaplan has been involved also in general psychiatric affairs. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine, and in the mid-1950's was the acting director of the Washington University Child Guidance Clinic for three years. He has been a lecturer in social psychiatry at the School of Social Work of Washington University since 1951, president of the Eastern Missouri Psychiatric Association from 1958 to 1959, and psychiatrist-in-chief at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis. Dr. Kaplan feels that American psychoanalysis is a scholarly profession that is closely related to the community, and that psychoanalysis must increasingly look to the community for clinical and financial support.
Rebecca Zinsher Solomon, training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, was reelected Secretary, and William S. Robbins was elected Treasurer. Dr. Robbins is a training and supervising analyst and Director of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Elected Counselors-at-large were Selma Kramer, a supervising and training analyst at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute; and Dr. Leonard Shengold, a training analyst at Downstate.