William S. Meyer, MSW

Clinical Social Worker, Professor*

William S. Meyer, MSW, was the Director of Training for Social Work, now under case management, and was an Associate Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Ob/Gyn at Duke University Medical Center. He practiced in Duke’s high-risk obstetrics clinic and he had been a supervisor and team leader of 3rd year psychiatry residents for over 25 years. He was a past-president of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and a former Secretary of the National Academies of Practice. He was on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, and he held faculty appointments at The University of North Carolina and Smith College. In 2009 he was a visiting professor to the US Army, Department of Psychiatry at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu. He was a life-long advocate of in-depth treatment and he had presented across the country on the painful history of the relationship between psychiatry and homosexuality. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including, in 1999, “The Heart of Social Work Award” granted by the North American Field Educators and Directors, of the Council On Social Work Education; in 2005, the “Edith Sabshin Award” for teaching, from the American Psychoanalytic Association; in 2010 the prestigious “Day-Garrett Award” from the Smith College School for Social Work; and in 2011 he was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Clinical Social Work and Psychoanalysis” by the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work. In 2020, he was the first recipient of the "William S. Meyer Teaching Award", so named in his honor, by the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas.

·        In memoriam