Background
Birk, Lee was born on February 8, 1935 in New Albany, Indiana, United States. Son of Glover McMurtrey and Marie Clyde (Carpenter) Birk.
Birk, Lee was born on February 8, 1935 in New Albany, Indiana, United States. Son of Glover McMurtrey and Marie Clyde (Carpenter) Birk.
Student, Speed Scientific School, 1952-1953; student, University Louisville, 1953-1954; Bachelor in Zoology & Chemistry, Valparaiso U., 1956; Doctor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1960.
Intern, University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, 1960-1961;
resident, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Boston, 1961-1962, 63-66;
instructor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968-1969;
assistant professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1969-1973;
assistant clinical professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973-1976;
associate clinical professor psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, since 1976;
director, Learning Therapies, Inc., Newton, Massachusetts, 1971-1989;
director, Learning Therapies, Inc., Concord, Massachusetts, 1989-1995;
director, Learning Therapies, Inc., Burlington, Massachusetts, since 1995. Visiting professor Institute Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1975. Rhoads lecturer Duke U.Sch.
Medicine, 1994.
Captain United States Air Force, 1962-1963. Member American Family Therapy Association, American College Psychiatrists, American Society Clinical Psychopharmacology, Society Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (co-founder).
Married Emily Perkins Gantt, June 21, 1958 (divorced January 1972). Children: Elizabeth Waring, Alexandria Lee. Married Ann Harrison Wegner, June 15, 1973 (divorced June 1990);children: Lara Blakiston, Jeffrey Lee.