At the time of the Registration of the IACP (19th April, 1968) there were 70 Members. On the eve of the first Annual General Body (AGB) meeting of the IACP held at Bangalore on the 15th October,1969 the provisional membership list had 80 Members and 2 Honorary Members (Dr D.Satyanand and Dr K.Bhaskaran).The first AGB unanimously decided that the founder membership would be kept open “till the next convention” so that those with a wait and watch attitude about the formation of the Association are not denied an opportunity to come in as Founder Members. The second convention was held at Lucknow from the 12th to 14th December, 1970. The Founder Membership ledger was closed with the sitting of the second AGB of the IACP held on 13th December 1970. The First Membership list of the IACP notified in 1971 consisted of 101 members who became the Founder Members.
A quick analysis of the latest membership directory of the IACP on the net showed that 47 of the Founder Members continue to be on the membership list (45 Fellows & 2 PLM’s) though the current address of some of them is not available. 14 have passed away while 40 others do not continue as Members of the IACP and information about them is lacking.
- Ahasan Syed Khurseed (Jamshedpur)
2. Abraham Annamma (Vellore)
3. Agarwal, K.G (New Delhi)
4. Ahuja, Indra (Teeside., UK)
5. Ardhapurkar, B.S (Bombay)
6. Ardhapurkar, I (Bombay)
7. Bai,Lakshmi A.J (Hyderabad)
8. Basavanna, C.M (Tirupati)
9. Basavaraju, M (Bangalore)
10.Bhairava Prasad ,T.V (New York)
11.Bharathraj, J (Mysore)
12.Bhatacharjee,S (New Delhi)
13.Bhatnagar, Ajit Kumar (Ranchi)
14.Bhawani, A.D (Mysore)
15.Blanche L. Barnes (Bombay)
16.Brar, H.S (Selkirk,Canada)
17.Dhillon, Manjith (Portsmouth,UK)
18.Dalal,A.S (Edison,USA)
19.Dhairyam, D. Dr. (Madras)
20.Dube,S. Dr. (New Delhi)
21.Gandhi,J.S (Chandhigarh)
22.Garg,S.K (New Delhi)
23.Gupta, S.C (Lucknow)
24.Gupta, Surya (New Delhi)
25.Hegde, M.N (Carbondale,USA)
26.Hasan, Syed Ali (Madras)*
27.Hussain, Syed Ezaz (Panjim)
28.Jagatambika, R (Trivandrum)
29.Jayashankarappa,B.S (Pondicherry)
30.Jha,B.G (Ranchi)
31.Jha Jagan Nath (Muzafarpur)
32.Jayaswal, Ashwani K (Ghazipur)
33.Kanthamani,B.K (Durham,USA)
34.Kar,S.K (Calcutta)
35.Kenswar,D.K (Ranchi)
36.Kumar,Aditya (Agra)
37.Kumar Myra Dr (Ranchi)
38.Kumariah,V (Bangalore)
39.Leelavati, K.V (Kokomo,USA)
40.Mahajan,V.R (Bombay)
41.Mahato, Jogeswar (New Delhi)
42.Mathew, P.M (Vellore)
43.Maithraye,K.S (Jaipur)
44.Mishra, Mahendranath (Lucknow)
45.Mohammed, E (Poona)
46.Mathur,M.N.L (Sangli)
47.Moudgil,A.C (Chandigarh)
48.Mujtaba, Baquar (Ranchi)
49.Mujtaba,Vinod (Mrs) (Ranchi)
50.Muju,G.K (Srinagar)
51.Harinder, K Munjal Dr (New Delhi)
52.Murthy,H.N Dr ( Bangalore)
53.Murthy,Vinoda Dr (Bangalore)
54.Nagalakshmi,S.V (Bangalore)
55.Nataraj,C.L (Toranto,Canada)
56.Nathawat,S.S (Lucknow)
57.Nigam,Vina Rani (New Delhi)
58.Obaidulla,S.M (Madras)*
59.Padma Embar (Bangalore)
60.Padki, Vijay (Ahmedabad)
61.Pati, G.C D (Cuttuck)
62.Prabhu,G.G (New Delhi)
63.Prema Hegde (Carbondale,USA)
64.Rao, Madhu P (Bangalore)
65.Raman, E.J Dr (Bangalore)*
66.Ramachandra, S (Bangalore)
67.Ram Kishore (Lucknow)
68.Ratna, Kiran (New Delhi)
69.Rawal, P.T (Baroda)
70.Sahay, Manoranjan (Simdega)
71.Saraf, K.C (New York,USA)
72.Sathyavathi, K Dr (Bangalore)
73.Saxena, Kirti (Allahabad)
74.Sen Mazumdar,D.P Dr (Ranchi)
75.Sen, N.N Dr (New Delhi)
76.Sharma, K.C (New York, USA)
77.Sharma, S.C (Vishakapatanam)
78.Sharma, R.G Dr (Ranchi)
79.Sharma, V.P (London, UK)
80.Sahasi, Gurminder (Chandigarh)
81.Sheela, N (Hyderabad)
82.Srivastava, H.C (Jodhpur)
83.Siddique, S.H (New Delhi)
84.Singh, A.K (Manipur)
85.Singh, M.V (New Delhi)
86.Singh,Ratan (Jaipur)
87.Singh, S.B (Kanpur)
88.Singh, Sewa (New Delhi)
89.Sinha Bipul Kumar (Lucknow)
90.Somasundaram C.P (Vellore)
91.Sreedhar, K.P (Trivandrum)
92.Thimappa, M.S Dr (Bangalore)
93.Tiwari, C.A (Nagapur)
94.Tyagi, T.S (New Delhi)
95.Vekataramayya, S.R Dr (Tirupati)
96.Varma, A.C (Panjim)
97.Verma, J.S. (Jaipur)
98.Verma Santosh Kumar (Chandigarh)
99.Vinuta M.A (Bagalore)
100.Yadav, Shambu Nath (Agra)
101.Yeshwanth S Vagrecha (Udaipur)
In 1974, the then President Late Dr D.Dhairyam (19) became the first Life Member of the Association. He appealed to the other Members that as many members as possible should seek life Membership so that a corpus fund of the IACP can be created. Eight others, Ahuja Indra (4), Dhillon Manjith (17), Dube,S (20), Kumar Aditya (36),Kumar Myra (37), Padki Vijay (60), Sharma S.C (77) and Tiwari C.A (93) became “Life members” by paying the prescribed fee of Rs 250/=, in place of the annual subscription of Rs 15/=, and their names are shown as such in the IACP Membership list of 1974. Dr Dhairyam expired suddenly on 24th February,1976 at the age of 53 and his life membership lasted just about 2 years.
The very next year an appeal was made that Members who are qualified as per the prescribed qualifications and experience to become Fellows should apply for the same and start paying the annual subscription of Rs 25/= in place of Rs 15/= prescribed for the Members. Prabhu,G.G (62) applied and was elected as the first Fellow of the IACP at the Varanasi, EC meeting of the IACP on 23rd December,1975. This is recorded in the IACP Membership list of 1977.
(*Members who left India and whose later addresses could not be traced)
Please Note: Well documented history of the profession of Clinical Psychology in India as also of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists (IACP) has been scanty. The present exercise is a small effort to fill in this hiatus. The above list of Founder Members has been compiled from available records by Prof. .G.G.Prabhu who had been the Founder Secretary of the IACP. The names of the Members, their academic titles, place of work and the names of the concerned cities is given as they existed in 1971. Errors, if any, detected by any member may kindly be brought to the notice of IACP on Email: iacpsecretary@gmail.com so as to make necessary corrections.