Robert S. Wallerstein
American psychoanalyst

Robert S. Wallerstein

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American psychoanalyst
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Male
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28 January 1921(Berlin)
Death:
21 December 2014
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Robert S. Wallerstein (January 28, 1921 – December 21, 2014) was a prominent German born American psychoanalyst. He has headed the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation and has been president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
Born in Germany but raised in The Bronx, Wallerstein moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1949 and to Belvedere, California in 1966, where he died on December 21, 2014.

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  • Hospital treatment of alcoholism : a comparative, experimental study, New York : Basic Books, 1957
  • Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: An Historical Perspective, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis,1989, 70:563-591
  • The talking cures : the psychoanalyses and the psychotherapies, New Haven [etc.] : Yale University Press, 1995
  • Lay analysis : life inside the controversy, Hillsdale, NJ [etc.] : Analytic Press, 1998
  • Forty-two lives in treatment : a study of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy : the report of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation, 1954-1982, New York : Other Press, 2000
  • The Generations of Psychotherapy Research: An Overview. Psychoanal. Psychol., 18:243-267 (2001)
  • Psychoanalysis: The Broader Scope, International Universities Press, 2004