In Memoriam

Dr. Stephanie Steinfeld died unexpectedly at her home on June 16, 1996, after many years of doing battle with life-threatening illnesses. She was 49 years old.

Dr. Steinfeld was a Training and Supervising Analyst of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. She was also its Assistant Dean, and a member of the Faculty, Faculty Council and Board of Trustees. She served on the Editorial Board of this journal, was Founding Director of the Psychology Program of the Karen Horney Clinic, and co-authored a new foreword to Karen Horney's Neurosis and Human Growth.

Stephanie Steinfeld was the youngest of three daughters. She grew up in a close-knit family. Her father, a major influence in her life, died when she was an adolescent.

Stephanie graduated from Hunter College and went on to Hofstra University where she was awarded a doctorate in Clinical School Psychology. She was licensed both as a clinical psychologist and school psychologist. She worked in inpatient psychiatry at Brooklyn State and Central Islip State Hospitals. For many years she was Chief Supervising Psychologist for Child and Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatric Services at Queens Hospital Center/Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry. In 1976, she was among the first psychologists to be accepted for training at the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, which had previously trained only physicians. In 1980, while still a candidate, she was chairperson and motivating force behind the highly successful Symposium on Narcissism. In 1981, she was certified as a psychoanalyst.

In her relatively brief professional career, she made rich contributions. She presented, “Minimal Brain Dysfunction: A Total Syndrome,” at the Grand Rounds of the Department of Psychiatry, Hillside Medical Center. At meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, she presented “Anorexia Nervosa: The Embattled Disorder,” and “Penis Envy: Its Current Ontological Status,” and she discussed Morris Eagl