Background
Shapiro, Theodore was born on February 26, 1932 in New York City. Son of Herman Alexander and Nettie (Rosenblatt) Shapiro.
(One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Genti...)
One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme re sponds with surprise when he learns that he has been speaking prose all his life. The apparent discovery, reflected in his comment, provides us with both the virtues and the difficulties in presenting "yet another book," especially one with a somewhat ambitious title as this one. The virtues may be cataloged under cross-fertilization among a number of disciplines which provides impetus to new ideas, work, and even dis coveries. The difficulties pertain to the difference in focus of each disci pline, the difference in the object each discipline chooses to study, and the difference in specialized language that accrues between fields of inquiry. Not too many years ago, natural science and especially psychology were within the confines of philosophy and its subsectors: the pre Socratic philosophers were essentially cosmologists, and only later, with Socrates and Plato's work, did an interest in epistemology assume a central position within philosophy. Although this event put man at the center of philosophical inquiry, the emergence of techniques to study psychological processes per se was indeed late and, at that, long after natural science had edged away from philosophy. Recently, it is some times difficult to distinguish linguistics from philosophy, because there is a strong wave of philosophical thinking that is dependent on linguistic analysis, and the specialized linguistics of that area depends heavily on philosophical musings.
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Shapiro, Theodore was born on February 26, 1932 in New York City. Son of Herman Alexander and Nettie (Rosenblatt) Shapiro.
Bachelor, Wesleyan University, 1953; Doctor of Medicine, Cornell Univercity, 1957.
Intern, Montefiore Hospital, New York City, 1957-1958;
resident in psychiatry, New York University-Bellevue Hospital, 1958-1961;
research associate child psychiatry, New York University-Bellevue Hospital, 1961-1965;
instructor to professor, New York University School Medicine, 1960-1976;
professor psychiatry and pediatrics, Cornell Univercity Medical College, New York City, since 1976;
vice chair for child and adolescent psychiatry, since 1995;
assistant lecturer, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York City, 1970-1986;
training and supervising analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York City, since 1986. Consultant Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, World Health Organization, Washington, Geneva, Copenhagen, 1980-1982, American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Washington. Chair commission on stewardship Task Force Future, 1980-1982, academic secretary, 1981-1983, chair work group on science issues, 1988-1989, chair committee editorship and stewardship of journal, 1984-1986, 90-92.
Participant in APA bilateral exchange in Eastern Europe, 1992. Mem.eviewe child psychopathology and treatment review committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1994-1998.
(One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Genti...)
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Fellow American Academy Child Psychiatry (secretary 1981-1983), American Psychiatric Association. Member Society professors Child Psychiatry (Chairman of Commission on education since 1982), Groupfor Advancement of Psychiatry (Chairman of Commission on child psychiatry 1985-1990), American Board Psychiatry & Neurology (commission on child and adolescent psychiatry 1987-1993, chairman 1992-1993), New York Psychoanalytic Society.
Married Joan May Itkin, June 26, 1955. Children: Susan, Alexander Herman.