Roger A. Lewin

Background

Roger A. Lewin was born on January 22, 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He is the son of David Victor Lewin, a soil engineer, and Doris (Shapiro) Lewin, a teacher.

Education

Roger A. Lewin received his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1967. He also received a Doctor of Medicine from Wright State University in 1981.

Career

Roger Lewin was a resident at Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland from 1981 to 1985, and then became a psychiatrist during 1985-1991. In 1991 he became a teacher and supervisor there.

Besides, in 1981 Lewin launched a private practice of psychiatry in Towson.

In addition, he was a volunteer teacher in Tanzania at a training college for political leaders and at Kivukoni College in Dar es Salaam in 1967-1969. He was also a housing developer at Building Systems, Inc. and conducted fieldwork in Bahia, Brazil.

Roger Lewin was also as a teacher, and later became the director of a Quaker school in Cleveland, Ohio.

Achievements

• As a psychiatry specialist, Roger Lewin has been practicing for more than thirty years. He is primarily famous for the books "Losing and Fusing" (with Clarence Schütz) and "Creative Collaboration in Psychotherapy". Besides, he received Wendell Muncie Award from Maryland Association of Private Practicing Psychiatrists and Maryland Psychiatric Society, for the paper "Difficulties in Communicating with a Borderline Patient".

Works

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• book

  • Compassion

    (This text is an attempt to stimulate and support therapis...)

    1996
  • Creative Collaboration in Psychotherapy

    (This text encourages both patient and therapist in creati...)

    1997
  • Spring Fed Pond

    (An unusual book of haiku poetry, creatively bound and bea...)

    2003
  • Losing and Fusing 1992
  • New wrinkles 1996
  • Lamentations 1993

Membership

Roger Lewin has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha.

Interests

• gardening, hiking, languages, riding

Connections

Roger A. Lewin married Julia Vandivort on June 11, 1977, but she died on November 23, 1988. He married his second wife Joan Lilienthal, a dance therapist, on May 3, 1990.

Roger Lewin has a daughter, Rachel Julia Lewin, from his first marriage.

Father:

David Victor Lewin

Mother:

Doris (Shapiro) Lewin

Spouse:

Joan Lilienthal

late spouse:

Julia Vandivort

Daughter:

Rachel Julia Lewin

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series