Frederick A. Weiss 1898-1967

On February 17, 1967, Dr. Weiss, at age 68, died after a short illness. He had been a most active member of our group for almost twenty-five years.

In his eulogy Dr. Alexander Reid Martin said, “Frederick Weiss was for years a close friend and associate of Karen Horney and an ardent advocate of her basic ideas and ideals. Like her, he had a faculty for grasping the essence of a human situation and catching the overtones and deep implications of whatever was happening.”

Born in Berlin on July 4, 1898, he had graduated from the University of Berlin in 1916, where he studied philosophy and psychology. He took his medical training at the Universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Freiburg, and graduated in 1921. His residencies in psychiatry were in Berlin, Prague and New York.

In 1943 he started his psychoanalytic training with the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. From that time on until his death he participated fully and productively in the activities of the Institute as a student, teacher and member of the Board of Trustees; in the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis as a member of many committees and at one time as President of the Association; as an editor of The American Journal of Psychoanalysis; and as a founder of the Karen Horney Clinic on whose Medical Board he served.

He gave many public lectures, taught at The New School for Social Research, was a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a founding member of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and a contributor of many articles on a wide range of psychoanalytic subjects to The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, as well as to many books and foreign journals. He also organized the symposium on “Alienation and the Search for Identity” in honor of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Karen Horney. An entire issue of our Journal (Vol. 26, No. 2) was devoted to this symposium.

Dr. Martin spoke of Dr. Weiss as “the warm outgoing friend; the energetic, dedicated teacher; the emotiona