Background
Wallerstein, Robert Solomon was born on January 28, 1921 in Berlin. Son of Lazar and Sarah (Guensberg) Wallerstein.
Wallerstein, Robert Solomon was born on January 28, 1921 in Berlin. Son of Lazar and Sarah (Guensberg) Wallerstein.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1941. Doctor of Medicine, Columbia University, 1944. Postgraduate, Topeka Institute Psychoanalysis, 1958.
Associate director, then director research, Menninger Foundation, Topeka, 1954-1966;
chief psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, 1966-1978;
training and supervising analyst, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1966;
clinical professor, University of California School Medicine, Langley-Porter Neuropsychiat. Institute, 1967-1975;
professor, department chairman psychiatry, also director institute, University of California School Medicine, Langley-Porter Neuropsychiat. Institute, 1975-1985;
professor department psychiatry, University of California School Medicine, Langley-Porter Neuropsychiat.
Institute, 1985-1991;
professor emeritus, University of California School Medicine, Langley-Porter Neuropsychiat. Institute, since 1991. Visiting professor psychiatry Louisiana State University School Medicine, also New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, 1972-1973, Pahlavi U., Shiraz, Iran, 1977, Federal U. Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil, 1980.
Member, chairman research scientist career development committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1966-1970. Fellow Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California, 1964-1965, 81-82, Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1992.
Fellow: American College of Physicians, American Orthopsychiat. Association, American Psychiatric Association, American College Psychoanalysts. Member: Group Advancement Psychiatry, British Psycho-Analytic Society (honorary), Mexico Psychoanalytic Association (honorary), Mexico Association Psychoanaltyic Practice, Training Research (honorary), International Psychoanalytic Association (vice president 1977-1985, president 1985-1989, honorary vice president since 1999), American Psychoanalytic Association (president 1971-1972), Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Married Judith Hannah Saretsky, January 26, 1947. Children— Michael Jonathan, Nina Beth, Amy Lisa.