Leo Rangell
American psychoanalyst

Leo Rangell

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American psychoanalyst
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Male
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1 October 1913(Brooklyn, USA)
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28 May 2011(Los Angeles, USA)
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Columbia University
University of Chicago
Pritzker School of Medicine
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Leo Rangell (October 1, 1913 – May 28, 2011) was an American psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California. He was also twice president of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association, and was accorded the title "Honorary President" in 1997. Rangell died May 28, 2011 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 97.

Biography

Rangel was born in Brooklyn, New York, October 1, 1913 to parents who had recently immigranted from Eastern Europe.He graduated from Boys High School and became a premed student at Columbia University (BS with honors, 1933).He completed medical school at the University of Chicago in 1937.

Notable publications

  • The Mind of Watergate (1980)
  • My Life in Theory (2004)
  • The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory (2006)