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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



and purposes of the Association, or a member 

 of the staff of a Protestant hospital. Associate 

 Institutional : organizations interested in the 

 objectives of the Association but not eligible 

 for Institutional membership. Associate Per- 

 sonal : personnel next in authority to the admin- 

 istrator, or trustees or members of an association 

 whose objectives and principles are the same 

 as those of Personal members. Sustaining : 

 individuals, institutions, corporations, or organ- 

 izations interested in the welfare of the Associa- 

 tion. Honorary: open to any person whose 

 services, public or private, entitle him to such 

 recognition. Institutional, 300 ; Personal, 485. 

 Total membership 785. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Bulletin, quarterly, $1, free to 

 members. Year Book, free to members. Editor : 

 Leo M. Lyons. 



267. American Psychiatric Association. 1700 

 18th Street, N. W., Washington 9, D. C. 

 President: Robert H. Felix. Term expires 

 May 1961. Executive Secretary: Mathew 

 Ross. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized October 1844, as the 

 Association of Medical Superintendents of 

 American Institutions for the Insane ; name 

 changed to American Medico-Psychological 

 Association 1893 and to present title 1921. 

 Has fifty district branches ; its forty committees 

 carry out the program of the Association. 



Purpose: To further the study of subjects 

 pertaining to the nature, treatment, and pre- 

 vention of mental disorders ; to further the 

 interests, maintenance and advancement of 

 standards of hospitals, out-patient clinics, and 

 all other agencies concerned with medical, 

 social, and legal aspects of these disorders ; 

 to further psychiatric education and research ; 

 and to apply psychiatric knowledge to other 

 branches of medicine, to other sciences, and 

 to the public welfare. 



Membership: Open to doctors of medicine in 

 Canada, the United States, Central America, and 

 U. S. Territories. Associate Members, those 

 with one year of experience in a a mental 

 hospital or equivalent ; Full Members, those with 

 three years of such experience; Fellows, those 

 with six years of such experience. Total mem- 

 bership approximately 12,000. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Holds conferences, 

 institutes; has grant projects, offers consulta- 

 tion services, makes fellowship awards. Lester 

 N. Hofheimer Prize, for a contribution of a 

 research nature in the field of psychiatry or 

 mental hygiene. Isaac Ray Award, for an 

 outstanding contribution in the field of medical 

 j urisprudence. 



Publications: American Journal of Psychiatry, 

 monthly, $12. Editor : Clarence B. Farrar. 

 Psychiatric Research Reports, irregular, mono- 

 graph series, $2. Mental Hospitals, monthly 

 except July and August. Newsletter, monthly, 

 except July and August, $5. 



Library: 1,000 volumes on the history of 

 psychiatry. 



See also: Arkansas District Branch; Bronx 

 District Branch; Brooklyn District Branch 

 (Kings County) ; Central California Psychiatric 

 Society ; Central New York District Branch ; 

 Colorado District Branch ; Connecticut District 

 Branch ; Delaware Psychiatric Society ; Eastern 

 Missouri District Branch; Florida Psychiatric 

 Society; Georgia Psychiatric Association; 

 Hawaii Psychiatric Society ; Illinois Psychiatric 

 Society; Indiana District Branch; Indiana Psy- 

 chiatric Society ; Intermountain Psychiatric 

 Association; Iowa Neuropsychiatric Society; 

 Kansas District Branch ; Kentucky District 

 Branch ; Louisiana District Branch ; Maryland 

 Psychiatric Society ; Michigan District Branch ; 

 Mid-Hudson District Branch; Minnesota Psy- 

 chiatric Society; Mississippi Psychiatric Soci- 

 ety; Nassau Neuropsychiatric Society; Nebras- 

 ka, North Dakota, South Dakota District 

 Branch ; Neuropsychiatric Society of Virginia ; 

 New Jersey District Branch ; New York County 

 District Branch ; New York State Capitol 

 District Branch ; North Carolina District 

 Branch ; North Pacific District Branch ; North- 

 ern California Psychiatric Society ; Northern 

 Indiana Psychiatric Society; Northern New 

 England Disctrict Branch ; Ohio Psychiatric 

 Association ; Oklahoma District Branch ; Ont- 

 ario District Branch ; Pennsylvania Psychiatric 

 Society ; Quebec District Branch ; Queens 

 County Psychiatric Society ; Rhode Island Dis- 

 trict Branch ; South Carolina District Branch ; 

 Southern California Psychiatric Society; Suf- 

 folk County District Branch ; Tennessee Psy- 

 chiatric Association ; Texas District Branch ; 

 Washington, D. C, Psychiatric Society; West- 

 chester County District Branch ; Western Mis- 

 souri District Branch ; Western New York 

 Psychiatric Society ; Wisconsin Psychiatric 

 Association. 



268. American Psychoanalytic Association, Inc. 



1 East 57th Street, New York 22, N. Y 

 President: Jacob A. Arlow, 120 West 59th 

 Street, New York 19, N. Y. Term expires 

 May 1961. Executive Secretary: Mrs. Helen 

 Fischer. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded May 1911 as a Branch of 

 the International Psycho-Analytical Association. 



Purpose: To study and advance psycho- 

 analysis ; to advocate and maintain standards 

 for the training of psychoanalysts and for the 



