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We are very sorry to announce the death of one of the last remaining founders of CMPS, Evelyn Liegner, on April 5th. Dr. Liegner was among the group of analysts trained by Hyman Spotnitz who joined under the leadership of Phyllis Meadow to organize and develop the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in 1971. She taught primarily at CMPS, but also traveled to the Boston and Vermont campuses to contribute her clinical expertise (and her warmth and wisdom) to those programs.
Dr. Liegner was a valued member of the CMPS Board of Trustees and a generous contributor in a multitude of ways to our school, and to the body of theory and technique that constitute modern psychoanalysis. Her published articles included the especially influential “The Hate that Cures: The Psychological Reversibility of Schizophrenia.” A collection of her invaluable papers constituted Volume 28(1) of Modern Psychoanalysis.
Evelyn Schnayerson was born in Babrousk, Russia, on September 23, 1922, and came to the United States with her family at about age three. Both she and her husband of 71 years, Leonard Liegner, were central to the beginnings and early development of CMPS. (Leonard Liegner, a radiologist, taught courses on the brain at our school, and once defied various regulations— not ours; the center hadn't thought to address the issue—by bringing an actual brain to one of his classes. His death occurred in 2012).