In the election held last fall, David Hurst was reelected secretary of The American, and Dorothy E. Holmes and Allan Compton were elected councilors-at-large. Hurst will begin his second two-year term at the annual meeting in May. At that time Holmes and Compton will begin their terms as well, which run for four-years. Replacing Dexter M. Bullard, Jr., and Rebecca Z. Solomon, whose terms expire in May, they join six other councilors-at-large currently serving on the Executive Council, along with representatives of all affiliate societies and study groups of The American.
Hurst, current director of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, served as a councilor-at-large before becoming secretary. An original supporter of the Coalition for Patients' Rights, he is an active campaigner for the continued right of patients to contract privately for psychoanalytic treatment.
Holmes, a training and supervising analyst at the Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, has been active as a member of the Committee on Institutes of the Board on Professional Standards, and of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity. In addition to her contributions to The American, she has been deeply involved with Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, having chaired its Committees on Accreditation and on Graduate Education and Training, and having served on its Board of Educational Affairs.
Compton has served as assistant director of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Unlike many other members from Southern California, he did not advocate that The American seek to exclude psychoanalysis from any national health care system. In his preelection statement to TAP, he favored the vigorous pursuit of external credentialing for analysts.
The other candidates in the election were Alvin Frank of St. Louis for the office of secretary, and Ralph P. Engle, Jr. (Boston) and Harvey Rich (Washington) for the councilor-at-large seats.