Lincoln Rahman—1904-1956

Lincoln Rahman, M.D., a member of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, died on August 11, 1956, the victim of a tragic automobile collision in which the driver of another car drove through a red traffic light because of misdirected attention. The life thus extinguished was one of great value to his family, his friends, his colleagues, his patients, and his students, and one that through his varied activities and relationships gave high satisfactions to himself.

At the time of his death, Dr. Rahman was a Trustee of the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis, Vice-President of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, Secretary of the Southern California Psychiatric Society, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Medical School of the University of Southern California. He had been for four years Director of the Clinic of the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalysis and he was about to be nominated President-Elect of the Southern California Psychiatric Society.

Lincoln Rahman had attained these positions not because he was ambitious—he was essentially a modest man—but because he loved constructive activity and service. He repeatedly served on committees to frame or revise by-laws of the Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and he had just completed compiling and publishing for the Southern California Psychiatric Society a most useful Directory of Psychiatrists and Clinical Psychiatric Facilities in Southern California. Warm friendliness and devoted activity were keynotes in his character.

He was born in New York City on February 12th, 1904, and grew up in Ossining, New York, the eighth in a family of thirteen children. His father was an architect of German descent; his mother was of French and Belgian extraction. He graduated from high school at fifteen, winning a four-year scholarship to Cornell University. There his plan to major in chemistry was