Current professional activitiesPrivate practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, 1954 to present Clinical Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst, New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles Faculty associate, Center for Behavior, Evolution, and Culture, UCLA Deptartment of Anthropology California medical license. Board certified in psychiatry and psychoanalysis Professional EducationB.S., M.D. New York University 1947, 1st Year Anatomy Prize (I loved anatomy - and surgery - and cardiology - and especially psychoanalytic psychiatry) Rotating Internship, Fresno County General Hospital, 1947-48 (I delivered 36 babies) Fellow, Menninger Foundation School of Psychiatry, 1948-50 (I got a bit impatient with the didactics) Resident in Psychiatry, Veterans Administration Hospital, Topeka, Kansas 1948-50 (Great clinical experience with severely mentally ill veterans under very good supervision) Resident in Psychiatry, Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital and UCSF Langley Porter Clinic, San Francisco, 1950-51 (Good child psych. training, conventional and somewhat boringly presented neurology-then, but probably not now) Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1972 (Wrote dissertation on mothers' emotional reactions to the birth of babies with severe cleft palates) Active Duty military serviceUS Army Reserve Corps: Private First Class, stationed at Camp Upton, NY, then at NYU College of Medicine (Navy had rejected me for substandard vision, but accepted me as a reserve medical officer after I graduated; does this mean that enlisted personnel are more far-seeing than officers?) U.S. Navy Medical Corps: Lieutenant (Senior Grade) assigned to Marine Recruit Depot, Destroyer Base, and Naval Retraining Command, San Diego, 1952-54. Many stories to tell about my ambivalence in working with Marines. I actually respected them, and still do to this day. Although initially horrified at witnessing the Marine Drill Instructors shouting epithets at young recruits, I came to understand the actual life-preserving value of those experiences in building new identity as a Marine and, through this special culture, bracketing self-serving in favor of extending the practice of what evolutionists call "kin altruism". While not strictly “kin” altruism, it's the kind of attitude that prompts a combat Marine to throw back a live grenade to preserve a buddy. Prior to active duty during the Korean War, I spent one weekend per month and two weeks per year in the Navy Medical Reserve, doing little psychiatry but serving most often as an ER doc at Navy airbases in Olathe KS and Moffett Naval air station in Mountain View, CA. Most of the casualties I treated were pilots who tried to parachute when their crashing fighter planes were already too low in altitude, or in fact had crashed with their aircraft in an attempt to glide them in after engine failure (contrary to their squadron leaders' orders). (I took plane rides when I could; even took a turn at the controls of a four engine propeller-driven Navy transport R4D [without passengers] for twenty minutes with the 4-striper pilot in the copilot's seat. What fun! Time for true confessions...) Prior professional positionsFounding Director, Riverside (Calif) State Mental Hygiene Clinic, 1951-52 Founding Medical Director, California Youth Authority Reception Center and Clinic, Norwalk, CA 1954-55 Founding Director and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute Outpatient Clinic, 1956-60 Founding Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, 1960-76 (My most ambitious creative project so far) Professor of Psychiatry and Founding Chair, Division of Community Psychiatry, University of Southern California Medical School, 1970-71 Dean and Education Committee Chair, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1991-1996 Offices held (partial list)President, California Conference of Local Mental Health Directors, 1962-64 President, California Mental Retardation Board, 1964-66 Board Chairman, Kuroda Institute for the study of Buddhism and Social Values, Los Angeles, 1978-82 President, Southern California Psychiatric Society, 1980-1982 President, Southern California Psychoanalytic Society, 1986-88 Publications49 papers in juried professional journals and 2 book chapters on adolescent psychiatry, community mental health, and psychoanalysis. Earliest publications: (1955) "Dynamics of authority relationships", J.Correctional Psychol. 2:43-51; (1957) "The delinquent child and the family doctor", JAMA 165:339-342. Most recent (2008): "Living within the Cellular Envelope: Subjectivity and Self from an Evolutionary Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective". J. Am. Ac. Psychoanal & Dyn. Psychiat. 36(2) 317-341. In the same issue: "En garde against traces of Cartesianism: A reply to Clay C. Whitehead". Ibid. (A full list will be added to this website) My media roles (partial list)1) In the fall of 1941, as an NYU undergraduate with a minor in French literature, I was part of a broadcast to fallen France on a US Government radio program "Student to student". "La belle France remontera dans la famille des nations!" (Beautiful France will rise again in the family of nations) 2) In the spring of 2001, I was the host of an AM talk radio program, "Our Inner World", broadcast on the Renaissance Radio network to stations in Tucson and Providence. I interviewed many well-known psychoanalysts on the subjects of evolution, development, and mental disorders (I still retain syndication rights). My psychoanalyst daughter, Marianne, composed and recorded the theme song - beautifully evocative. |