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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Mon, Jan. 8, 1968 3 Training Psychoanalysts in St. Louis Jack Rice Went to Movies, Stayed 47 Years RETIREMENT does make man think back on the tifngs ha started out to do. Russell Bovim was telling about the hike he once began from Milwaukee to California.

He was Foundation Works Toward Establishment of Institute Here Headed for law school at Stanford and he stopped In Denver, i to earn more money for the road west. He got a Job for the weekend as an usher at a movie theater. The film being shown was "Riders of the Purple Sage," starring William Farnum, and It was 1921. When Bovim walked out of Loew's State theater here and into retirement the other day, the film he left behind him on the screen was "The Ambush-ers," starring Dean Russell Bovim The movies were 47 years apart. Bovim couldn't stand up nd say something nostalgic, like, "This Is where I came In," because it wasn't so, technically.

A lot of sound and bikinis had been added. It seems to me that Bovim saw a better picture the first rime, In Denver, but that probably Isn't Important, either. The fan in Bovim always has ruled over the critic in him. Farnum was one of the big stars when Bovim got the Job In Denver In 1921. Bovim somewhat resembles the late Big Bill, not as tall but strongly built, and with strong features.

Bovim's remote hairline has the pleasant effect of allowing his smile to dominate his face. Leaders In the Psychoanalytic Foundation of St. Louis are, from left, Dr. Alex H. Kaplan, medical director; Dr.

Paul A. Dewald, head of the founda-Tion clinic, and Dr. Conrad Sommer, the first president and medical director. By James W. Singer Of tho PoitDispatch Staff SIGMUND FREUD, father of psychoanalysis, might have mixed feaiings about St.

Louis if he were alive today. He probably would be delighted with the progress that his followers have made here in the last decade but disappointed that St. Louis still lags behind other major cities in the country as a center for psychoanalytic training. In 19atf, the four analysts living here were sconce rnsd group. There were 15 Institutes in the country where psychoanalysts were trained in accordance with the standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association, but St Louis had no such facility.

It was estimated that in the preceding decade 25 of the most promising young psychiatrists had left the city to get psycho-analytic training elsewhere. Something had to be done to re-. verse the trend. In July 1956, Dr. Conrad Som-mer met with key members of the medical schools of Washington University and St Louis University.

He proposed that a foundation be created to work for the establishment of an institute. "The development of such an Institute here may well take several years, quite possibly as long as a decade," ha aid. In November 1956, the Psychoanalytic Foundation of St I was incorporated. Lay members of the community Joined the organization with the analysts. The Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, which had been established in 1932, was authorized by the American Psychoanalytic Association to assist fat Implementing the foundation's program.

DR. SOMMER became the first president He served in that capacity and then as medical director until May 1965, when he was succeeded by Dr. H. Alex Kaplan, present director. The foundation began to raise funds to carry on its program and to erect its own building.

It was situated at first in a small window! ess room in the basement of the Doctors building, 100 North Euclid avenue. It is now in Its own building at 4524 Forest Park avenue. Today there are 12 analysts In the city. They believe that young psychiatrists no longer leave to get their psychoanalytic training elsewhere, that, in fact, the foundation is attracting men to St Louis. The foun-dation has established firm roots and, although an institute has not yet been created, is carrying on an active program.

Of primary importance, It is teaching the theory and practice of psychoanalysis In co-operation with the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. While it is difficult to give a shorthand definition of psychoanalysis, Dr. Kaplan makes these observations: "Psychoanalysis is a science of the processes and functions of the mind, which stems from the studies of Sigmund Freud and his followers. It includes the recognition of the uncon-, the interpretation of his novels. The analysts acknowledge that psychoanalysis does not offer a cure for every type of mental Illness.

It is a specialized form of treatment for a certain group of psychoneurotio illnesses such as personality disturbances, depressions, compulsions, anxiety states and phobias and is of help In understanding the more a mental disorders. Dr. Kaplan says that If psychoanalysis were only a technique of treatment it would be of limited value. Ha believes mat it is much more: "The real value of psychoanalysis comes from the Insights It produces, through Intensive treatment of a small number of patients, which are used In the prevention of mental Illness for a large number of people." The Psychoanalytic Fourda-tion of St Louis is a vibrant organization makir.g a contribution to the city ir a number of ways. However there are now 20 psychoanalytic Institutes in 15 cities across the country, but there is still no Institute here.

Dr. Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis. treatment in two of the cues. A minimum of 50 hours of supervision is given on each of the four a a. The psychiatrists must pass a final examination to receive a certificate.

Analysts should have a wide range of interests and a special concern for the people, Drs. Sommer and Kaplan agreed. As one analyst put it: "The analyst's work requires living in two worlds past and present, real and unreal, of himself and someone else simultaneously. He must Identify with another person with no loss of reality contact or of his own Identity." THE FOUR psychiatrists presently in training at the foundation are analyzed here and treat their four patients here. Two of the cases are supervised in St Louis and two in Chicago.

A few courses are taught at the foundation, but most are still given at the Chicago Institute. As a result those in training at the foundation must spend every other weekend commuting to Chicago for classes. When an institute is established here, which Dr. Kaplan estimates will be another five or 10 years, all the training will be given in St Louis. Dr.

George A. Benson who was attracted to St. Louis from Cincinnati by the foundation in 1957, is the first psychiatrist to have been trained as an a a I by the foundation in co-operation with the Chicago institute. He began his training 10 years ago and finished last summer. "The to Chicago cuts your income by at least a quarter, considering the expense Involved and the loss of business," he said.

"It is a long, difficult haul, and if one begins simply for money or prestige he will never make it You must really enjoy the Louis University, is a supervisor of psychiatric residents at Jewish Hospital and works In the psychiatric unit of Flrmin Desloge Hospital. He came to St Louis for several reasons. "There was a need for analysts here," he said. "There wera few analysts, many patien's and a variety i teaching possibilities. ere was a new and active psychoanalytic foundation which presented an opportunity for advancement" Besides serving as a training Institution, the foundation runs a low-cost treatment service, headed by Dr.

Paul A. Dewald. Four other analysts participate in the program as well as 10 psychiatrists and a social worker, Mrs. Janet Golden. All who apply to the clinic are evaluated by an analyst.

Those who are seriously ill and in need of immediate attention are referred to other facilities in the community. Those treated at the clinic receive psychoanalytic therapy, intensive psychotherapy supportive therapy. The clinic's fees range from $1 to $25 a visit and are based on the patient's ability to pay. THE CLINIC was started six and a half years ago. After five years, more than 500 patients had been seen and the doctors had contributed more than 9100 hours of their time.

Referrals come from a variety of sources, Mrs. Golden reported. The clinic is swamped because there are so few places in the city where low-cost treatment is available," she said. She explained that psychoanalysis is not the ideal treatment for everyone who is mentally ill It is primarily for those between 18 and 50 with enough emotional strength to withstand a searching form of treatment WHILE FARNUM was looking noble and forbidding on horseback In the stlenta, Bovim was doing rather well In Denver. The weekend Job as an usher kept right on going.

Within year, he was manager of the theater, but he couldn't write home about that His father considered a sin to go to movies. Everybody knew about the carryings-on of actors and actresses. It was several years before Bovim admitted to his father that he was trafficking in movies. After he left Denver to start 44-year career with the Loew's organization, Bovim was able to get his father into a movie house. It impressed the older man.

The Loew's chain called Itself "The Tiffany's of show business." The Loew's State here is an example of what it took to look rich at the time, walnut paneling and Italian marble. Now it merely looks impossible, considering the cost of drywall and plywood. Other omate touches In lobbies then were men in black-tie formal wear, Including white gloves, and ushers in bellhop uniforms and hats. When a customer asked an usher a question, that usher came to attention and saluted, and then pointed which way to the restroom. BOVIM, in his rise from usher, should have been an inspiration to youths in the Loew's system, and probably was, but not to all.

When ne was general manager of a group of theaters, including the State in Memphis, an usher there worked his way up to doorman, and then worked his way out to the street. He was fired for fighting with an usher, in the theater. "He never showed ill-feeling about being fired," Bovim aid. "He still comes back to the theater from time to time to visit with the manager who fired him, saying 'Yes Sir and No and all the while one of his Cadillacs la out front, in the No Parking zone. In Memphis, Elvis Presley can park anywhere he wants." Well, as Bovim was saying, his last day on the Job, there is that matter of what he started out to do.

Go to California. He never got beyond Denver. Bovim was delayed 47 years by the movie business and never has been to California but he believes that he and his wife may make it soon. Everybody tells him there's something he really should see out there, while it's still in business. A place called Hollywood.

Erma Bombeck Down With No Sleeves THE MINISKIRTS I've learned to live with. I got sick of passing out cards on street corners reading, "REPENT! BEFORE YOU FREEZE TO DEATH!" I got weary of telling my daughter, "If God had meant for you to show your knees, ton University School of Bust-n Administration. Nineteen executives from It companies attended the course, which was designed to show how psycho ADVERTISEMENT broadly appealing and the very basic. The library, under the direction of Dr. John W.

Higgins, gets a lot of use. Books may be checked out by members, who pay $1 to Join. The membership, now at 570, doubled In the last two months. "The word is getting around that we have a fine library," said Mrs. Ann Mounts, analytic principles could be applied to business problems.

One of the most popular recent lectures sponsored by the foundation concerned Charles Dickens. Dr. Charles Kligerman of the Chicago institute demonstrated that a psychoanalytic under- standing of the author aided in Youthful Beauty From the early twenties, bed-dm mawiie with a vitalising night eream it ideal for softening traret of surface (kin dry-nets and liny lines. Apply Olay vitalising night cream to cheeks, and throat and coax It into tho skia with light, upward moulding strokes, then remove with a tliiae. Such Both the analysts and the foundation are a i a in the community in a variety of ways.

The analysts teach, serve as consultants to welfare agencies, do research, lecture frequently and participate in numerous panel discussions, symposiums and seminars. The foundation is equally Involved. Last January it sponsored a two-day seminar for businessmen with the Washing care will encourage complexion loveliness. CARPORT INVENTORY SALE Complefs Lini Slim Window i Doers LOCAL ACTOUT VO. 3-5540 PE.

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