Background
Marshall Edelson was born on May 31, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the family of George I. and Ida (Bernstein) Edelson.
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1970
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1970
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1970
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1971
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1984
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Discusses the possibility of psychoanalysis being a true science, and considers single subject research, objectivity, neural science, experimental methodology, the usefulness of psychoanalytic data, and hypothesis testing
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1999
Marshall Edelson was born on May 31, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in the family of George I. and Ida (Bernstein) Edelson.
Edelson received his M.D. from the University of Chicago Scool of Medicine and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Department of Psychology.
From 1961 to 1963, he was an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma. He then joined the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Mass., as a staff psychiatrist. In 1968, he went to Yale, where he remained for the rest of his career, becoming a full professor of psychiatry in 1976. He also was director of education and director of medical studies for the psychiatry department. He retired in 1998.
He was best known for his 1988 book, ''Psychoanalysis: A Theory in Crisis'', in which he defended psychoanalysis from critics who contended that the field had often lacked scientific discipline when examining its own research.
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1984His work as a physician was central to his life. His favorite quotation was from the Talmud: “Whoever saves a single life, Scripture regards him as if he had saved the entire world.”
International Psychoanalytic Association
American Psychiatric Association (life fellow)
American Medical Association
American Psychoanalytic Association
Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Society
Quotes from others about the person
Edelson presents a cogent but highly abstract line of reasoning.
Dr. Edelson has committed himself with gusto, persistence, and intelligence . . . [to] a spirited defense of psychoanalysis as science—not necessarily as it is, but as it can be in the best of hands and as it should be.
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On December 27, 1952 he married Zelda Sarah Toll (former head of publications, Peabody Museum, Yale University), and they had three children: Jonathan Toll, Rebecca Jo, David Jan Edelson Tolchinsky.
