The Four Committees of the American and the Precipitation of the Lawsuit

The Committee on Prerequisites for Training (CPT) deliberated carefully over a six-year span, from 1975 to 1981. It was appointed by Edward Weinshel, then Chairman of the Board on Professional Standards, and consisted of nine members, ¹ with Homer Curtis as chair and Paula Bernstein (one of its nonmedical members) as the very conscientious secretary who created minutes of its discussions in assiduous detail. The nine committee members were selected to represent the spectrum of views within the American on the issue of the place of lay analysis within the discipline; four of the nine were nonmedical, all products of the research training program under CORST auspices.