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I think in a study group like this everyone needs to know each other, so I take it as my obligation to let you know who I am. I was born in California and grew up in a little town called Sierra Madre. I attended public schools until I went off to UCLA for a year and on to Berkeley for the rest of my undergraduate career. I then went to medical school at UCSF. I began pediatric training, which was interrupted by military service. I ended up a flight surgeon and military neuropsychiatrist. I did some pediatrics in occupied Germany and returned to the San Francisco Hospital on the University of California service to finish my residency. Then I came east for a year because in the Bay Area I couldn't find the kind of training I wanted in child development and in the psychological aspects of pediatrics. Once I arrived in the east it was irresistible just to stay on, so I've been here for almost fifty years. I didn't know then that I wanted to be an analyst. Originally I was going back to be a pediatrician, probably in the Bay Area.
Sam Ritvo was the first director of training at the Yale Child Study Center. I wanted to study with him. So after I finished two years of formal psychiatric training in adult psychiatry I decided not to give myself credit for my six-week course in the military nor for the six months in Germany when I was the neuropsychiatric consultant for three airbases, but instead became part of the first training program in child psychiatry at the newly reorganized Yale Child Study Center. That was when Sally Provence moved up from Cornell. She was a pediatrician who had trained here at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute as a special candidate. In short I just stayed in New Haven and continued to do my work.