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The following essay is published in recognition of Sanford Gifford and his lifelong accomplishments as a psychoanalyst, teacher, historian, and colleague. The founder of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute's oral history project, he served as Director of BPSI's Hanns Sachs Library from 1966 to 2000 and as Director of the BPSI Archives from 2000 through 2013. He taught at the Harvard Medical School, worked at the West Roxbury, Massachusetts VA hospital, and chaired the History and Archives Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. In May 2013, he received the Boston Society and Institute's award for Lifetime Contribution. This essay derives from an unpublished talk delivered in May 1998 for SCI Grand Rounds, West Roxbury VA Hospital. Revised and presented to the 2011 APsaA Oral History Workshop on “Psychoanalysis and War,” it reflects the great breadth of learning, experience, and commitment that Sanford Gifford brought to his profession and to his community throughout his life. We are grateful to his sons, Ralph and Paul Gifford, for permission to publish this essay.