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There are few psychoanalysts today who can rival the experience and record of Leo Rangell. He has contributed well over 450 articles and 7 books on a truly vast array of subjects to the psychoanalytic literature. These topics range from the conventional theoretical building of metapsychology (e.g., anxiety, emergence of the self and object, technique, superego conflicts, ego autonomy, and decision-making) to the arena of applied psychoanalysis (e.g., subjects of politics and the dynamics of natural groups). His writings, always a dialogue with the pertinent issues of the day, are original yet meticulously anchored in the corpus of psychoanalytic theory.
His insights and written contributions are further enhanced by experienced leadership: twice President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, twice President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and three times president of his local society. It is from the center of the changing tides of psychoanalysis that he has witnessed and contributed to the great debates of our time. His perspective is undeniably exceptional. Now past 90, he chronicles the experiences he has gained as scientist, clinician, teacher, and executive, cultivated in over 60 years of professional practice, in the story My Life in Theory.