Born in Milwaukee, 1934, graduate of Oakland Technical High 1951--my all-time favorite educational experience, UC Berkeley, and UCSF. Psychiatry residency at Harvard, moved to Washington DC after completing M.P.H. there, served seven years at NIMH, then entered private practice, teaching at Howard and George Washington University medical schools.
As of 2008: Retired from practice. Teach as group leader for first year medical students. Clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, emeritus, GWUMC.
Avocations:
Cello; Esperanto; chess; backpacking; bicycling; peace activism; swimming, writing. Served on various boards: marriage and family therapy; sex education; family planning. Current: Jewish Peace Fellowship; Center on Conscience & War; Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society).
First publication in 1959
New England Journal of Medicine: “L. L. Zamenhof: Dr. Esperanto.” Regular reviewer for
Library Journal and
Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
New Work: First translation of 2nd edition of Myth of the Birth of the Hero by Otto Rank (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2004). Current project: editing the Sigmund Freud - Otto Rank letters for publication.
Regular reviewer (mainly psychology) for Library Journal, ForeWord, and the online American Psychological Association review PsycCritiques.
Essay, "Patent Medicine Redux: Drug Ads vs. Psychotherapy: Patent Medicine Redux" at PsycCentral.com
