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As one who was intimately associated for many years with Philip Lehrman both as a friend and colleague, whatever I can say about him in a few words is an insignificant tribute compared to the influence that his warm personality played in the lives of his family, his many friends, his colleagues, and his patients. In all his relationships he possessed a rare quality of loyalty and affection, giving of himself, and an ever-readiness to serve without stint. He was quick to defend what he believed was right and, without giving offense, to oppose what he believed was unjust.
He was an exceptionally skilled analyst and teacher. He graduated from Fordham Medical School in 1918, and received his basic psychiatric training at the St. Lawrence State Hospital in Ogdensburg, New York. He was one of the small group that first practiced and taught psychoanalysis in this country. In this he was fortunate, early in this career, to become associated with Dr. A. A. Brill. This relationship had great influence in determining the direction of Dr. Lehrman's interest in psychoanalysis. In the Outpatient Department of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Vanderbilt Clinic, he exerted considerable influence in overcoming opposition to psychoanalytic concepts and techniques at a time when psychoanalysis was mostly a subject of attack.
Primarily a clinician, he was Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He was also Attending Neurologist and Psychiatrist at the New York Post Graduate Hospital until its reorganization when he was given the same position with New York University. He was from 1921 a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society, serving actively in many offices and capacities in the Society and Institute until he died.
We who really knew him have lost what once was mortal, but to live in the memory of those one leaves behind is not to be gone.