As one my first official duties as your president, I wish to welcome all of you back from what I hope was a restful and refreshing summer vacation. Your executive board has been hard at work preparing for what we hope will be a stimulating enlightening year for the society. Karen Miller has turned in all of the paper work required for you to receive CME credits for attendance at Society meetings. She has been assisted by Kaye Bock, who also serves as Chair of the Child Psychoanalytic Study Group and is, therefore, able to arrange for the society speakers to meet with that study group when appropriate. Ann Simmons has all kinds of ideas regarding how to improve the communication between board members as well as within the membership itself. And Mary Nielson has been preparing statements for a September mailing and thinking of improved methods of dues collection. I hope that you will all respond promptly upon receipt of your statements so that we will have the necessary funds to obtain speakers of the highest quality. We also hope to revive the interest of those who have allowed their membership to expire.
We begin the year as usual with the Hyman Fingert, M.D. Memorial Lecture and feel very fortunate indeed to have as our speaker, Herbert J. Schlesinger, Ph.D. Herb was for many years a member of the faculty and the clinical staff of The Menninger Foundation. He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is the author of, "Endings and Beginnings, and will present to us a twelfth chapter of that eleven chapter book, "Endings, Beginnings, and the Countertransference." Since Hy Fingert's interest always centered upon the practice of Psychoanalysis, this seems to be an appropriate way if remembering him. We are grateful that Judy Chused, M.D., a child and adult training analyst, and Hy's daughter, has made it possible for us to have this annual remembrance of her father and our friend and colleague.
We are doubly fortunate in that Ann Appelbaum, M.D., a Child and Adult analyst, also formerly of the Menninger Foundation, will present the case of a Borderline Child to the Child Psychoanalytic Study Group on Saturday morning.
The executive committee is particularly pleased to have secured a beautiful paneled, very private room in the newly refurbished Daniele Hotel, with ample parking, close proximity to the Institute, and suitable for both dinner and the lecture, thus, hopefully avoiding having the evening run too late. We sampled the food and found it to be delicious, beautifully presented, and reasonably priced. The meeting will be on Friday, September 28, at the Daniele Hotel, dinner at 6:00 P.M., lecture at 7:30 P.M.
See you on the 28th!
Sylvia L. Ginsparg, Ph.D.
President, St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society