1st Edition
Repetition and Trauma Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis
Biography
Max M. Stern (1895-1982) received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main and his psychoanalytic training at the Institute of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Association, from which he graduated in 1938. Following his emigration to the United States in 1947, he practiced psychoanalysis in New York and served as a training analyst and faculty member at both the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Division of Psychoanalytic Education at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. A past president of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, Dr. Stern was the author of 18 papers on early psychobiological development and the integration of psychoanalysis with biology.
"We may rejoice with Max Stern that with the help of his devoted wife, Lisolette Bendix Stern, he succeeded in achieving his life's goal - a unified teleonomic theory of psychoanalysis. My ardent wish is that my colleagues will avail themselves of this extraordinary synthesis of the work of a great psychoanalytic pioneer."
- Henry Krystal, M.D., author, Integration and Self-Healing (Analytic Press, 1993)
"The book certainly presents some innovative ideas. I am totally in agreement with Stern's attempt to connect modern physiological research -- such as sleep and dream research -- with psychoanalytic theory and practice. I also find myself in agreement with his attempt, a new one for me, to integrate psychoanalytic and other views of human psychological development with larger evolutionary principles."
- Ernest Hartmann, M.D., International Journal of Psychoanalysis
