Background
David Freedman was born on May 27, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, into the family of Edward Philip and May (Davidoff) Freedman.
Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, United States
Dr. Freedman graduated from Harvard College in 1939.
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Dr. Freedman received his Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1943.
David Freedman was born on May 27, 1918 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, into the family of Edward Philip and May (Davidoff) Freedman.
Dr. Freedman graduated from Harvard College in 1939. Then he received his Doctor of Medicine from Tufts University School of Medicine in 1943.
Entering the Medical Corps, David served with the 2nd Cavalry Recon Squadron, attached to various Corps in the 2nd and later the 3rd Army. Arriving in Normandy one month after D Day, he ran a field hospital station, taking part in the Allied fight across Europe, until the end of World War II. His service included being the first American doctor to enter Flossenberg Concentration Camp, and he was discharged with the rank of Captain, Medical Corps, AUS.
On his return to the States, he did a neurology residency at Montefiore Hospital. In 1947, with his wife and first child, he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to undertake a psychiatry residency at Tulane University Medical School, and subsequently held appointments as Associate Professor of Neurology at Tulane (1954 - 1965), and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at L.S.U. School of Medicine (1969 - 1974). Later he became interested in and trained as a psychoanalyst at Washington/New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute.
From 1963 to 1976 he served as Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute (now NOBPC). In 1965, he moved to Houston to become affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry & Behavior Sciences, holding professorships of both Psychiatry and Neurology. Along with Drs. Robert Gilliland and Robert White, he became one of the founders of the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute (now Center for Psychoanalytic Studies), serving as President of it from 1978 to 1982.
In 1991 he retired from Baylor, maintaining a private practice until 1999, thereafter providing residents' supervision until illness prevented.
Author of over 100 professional articles, essays, and book reviews, in 1997 Dr. Freedman published his first book "On Infancy & Toddlerhood: An Elementary Textbook", and wrote a monograph entitled "Obsessiveness: A Parameter of Adaptation."
David described his political views as “relatively liberal.”
Quotations: “My research interests have been in the area of the role of early environmental experience in the shaping of the development of the psyche. I have always assumed that constitutional ‘givens’ set a limit to what any ‘growing-up’ individual can become. Within that limit, however, the particular vicissitudes which the individual encounters will determine his or her ultimate characteristics."
David married Charlotte Levy on February 9, 1947, but she deceased in 1986. They gave birth to four children - Theodore, Seth, Emily, and Michael. Then he married Leah Beryl Donnath on July 12, 1987.