On Friday, September 26, 1980, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York celebrated its 25th Anniversary with a formal dinner dance in the Tower Suite of the Time-Life Building. Mervin Hurwitz, M.D., and Sanford Stevens, M.D., chaired the committee that planned the affair, which was attended by 164 members and guests, including Dr. Arnold Cooper, President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Dr. Robert Cancro, Professor and Chairman of the New York University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry.

P.A.N.Y. was organized in March 1955 and was accepted as a Constituent Society by the American Psychoanalytic Association in May 1955. The Association was incorporated in February 1957.

Thirteen of the original 23 charter members are still with the Association: Leon L. Altman, Jacob A. Arlow, L. Peter Deutsch, Maurice R. Friend, Mark Kanzer, Sylvan Reiser, Theodore Lipin, Sandor Lorand, William G. Niederland, Nathaniel Ross, Robert A. Savitt, Henry I. Schneer, and Otto E. Sperling.

After 25 years, P.A.N.Y. membership continues to grow. During the 1979-1980 academic year, eight regular members joined the Association. P.A.N.Y.'s census is now 121 and consists of 109 regular, 4 associate, 1 special and 7 corresponding members.