Background
Bandler, Bernard was born on August 9, 1904 in New York City. Son of Leon and Miriam (Haas) Bandler.
Bandler, Bernard was born on August 9, 1904 in New York City. Son of Leon and Miriam (Haas) Bandler.
Bachelor of Science, Harvard University, 1926. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1928. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1938.
Intern Cincinnati General Hospital, 1938—1939. Graduate assistant, psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, 1942—1943, assistant, phychiatry, 1943—1946, assistant psychiatrist, 1946—1947. Assistant, psychiatry Harvard Medical School, 1940—1946, instructor, 1946—1947.
Staff psychiatric, clinic Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute Inc., 1942—1947, training analyst, 1948—1966. Director, psychiatry clinic University Hospital, 1947—1957, associate visiting physician, 1949—1954, visiting physician, since 1954, psychiatrist-in-chief, 1958—1970, trustee, 1960—1970. Assistant professor, psychiatry Boston University School Medicine, 1947—1949, associate professor, 1949—1953, professor & chairman, 1953—1970, chairman, division psychiatry, 1958—1970, emeritus, since 1970.
Acting area director Boston University Commonwealth Massachusetts Community Mental Health and Retardation Center, 1963—1970. Consultant staff, psychiatry University Hospital, since 1970. Senior consultant Boston University Medical School, since 1976, Solomon Fuller Carter Community Mental Health Center, since 1976.
Director Research Project Relations of Epilepsy to Sexual Life of Women, 1950. Member, special advisory committee Massachusetts Department Mental Health, 1960—1964, Massachusetts Governors Recess Commission Mental Health, 1961—1970. Chairman, executive committee medical staff University Hospital, 1960—1963.
Member, advisory council & co-chairman, task force on training Massachusetts Mental Health Planning Project, 1963—1965. Member, city relocations committee Boston Redevelopment Authority, 1967—1970. Consultant, committee on training National Institute of Mental Health, 1960—1963, chairman, training committee, 1963—1964, acting director, psychiatry training branch division manpower training, 1970—1971, acting director, division manpower and training, 1971—1972, special consultant on training to director, 1970—1972.
Member, test committee National Board Medical Examiners, 1965—1969. Member of American Medical Association, Boston Society Neurology and Psychiatry, Massachusetts Psychiatric Society, Suffolk District Medical Society, American Association Research Psychosomatic Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society (secretary, section psychiatry and neurology 1965, chairman 1966), American College Psychoanalysts (editor newsletter since 1979, president 1978-1979, chairman, committee colloquia since 1977, member, nominations committee since 1979, archivist since 1983), American Psychiatric Association (chairman, ad hoc committee education in public hospitals 1953-1961, member, program committee 1960-1963, chairman, committee psychiatry and psychology 1969-1970, council medical education and career development 1971-1976), American Psychoanalytic Association (president 1959-1960, chairman, board professional standards 1955-1958, committee, community psychiatry 1967-1977, senior consultant, committee since 1977), Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (chairman, educational committee 1950-1952, 1954-1955), Group Advancement Psychiatry (chairman, committee therapy 1953-1956, committee, therapeutic care since 1971).
Married Louise Silbert, July 13, 1942. Children: Susan, Jane, Judith, Deborah, Kate, Barry.