Background
Frank, Alvin Reuben was born on October 29, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Seymour Jerome and Edith Ida (Benjamin) Frank.
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Alvin Reuben Frank
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Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1949; Doctor of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1953; postgraduate, Chicago Institute Psycholanalysis, 1963-1968.
Career
Intern, University of Illinois College Medicine, 1953-1954;
resident, U. Cincinnati, 1956-1959;
instructor, U. Cincinnati, 1959-1960;
assistant director to associate director department psychiatry, Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, 1960-1963;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry, St. Louis, 1963-1968;
practice medicine specializing in psychoanalysis, St. Louis, since 1968;
clinical professor psychiatry, St. Saint Louis University, since 1979. Consultant Family and Children's Superior vena cava syndrome St. Louis, 1963-1971, Youth Counseling Svc. St. Louis, 1964-1971, Youth Care and Counseling St. Louis, 1975-1979, Lutheran Family and Children's Svc.
St. Louis, 1968-1974, Veterans Administration Hospital., St. Louis, 1971-1976. Member of faculty Chicago Institute Psychoanalysis, 1970-1971. Member workshop on reconstruction and psychoanalytic research New York City Center Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, since 1970.
Achievements
Membership
Member Suicide Prevention, Inc., St. Louis, treasurer, 1970-1971, president, 1971-1972. Member of advisory committee Margaret S. Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation, New York City, 1986-1989, board directors, since 1989. Board directors Forum for Contemporary Art, since 1989, president, since 1994.
Board directors American Psychoanalytic Foundation, since 1994, OperaTheater of St. Louis, since 1995. Captain United States Air Force, 1954-1956. Member Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, American Psychoanalytic Association (member commission on development resources 1981-1984, member commission on science activities 1986, member county on psychoanlytic education study group on training analysis since 1985, co-Chairman.1988, member editorial board journal 1978-1981), Mental Health Association St. Louis (board directors 1971-1973), St. Louis Psychoanalytic Society, Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, Westwood Country Club, Alpha Omega Alpha, Omega Beta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Delta.
Connections
Married Marlene Podell, August 23, 1952 (deceased January 1980). Children: Cathy D., Thomas S., Susan A.;m. Roxanne Harris, February 7, 1981.
