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Lawrence S. Kubie was born on March 17, 1896, and died on October 26, 1973. His early childhood was darkened by the long illness of his mother, who died from pulmonary tuberculosis when he was three years old. In an unpublished autobiography, Kubie reported that he virtually stopped eating for three years after her death, resuming only when his father married his mother's younger sister (Kubie, unpublished, e).
After graduating from Harvard in 1916, he attended medical school at Johns Hopkins University and trained in psychiatry under Adolf Meyer at the Phipps Clinic, where he formed an enduring and lifelong friendship with Bertram Lewin. In 1928 he traveled to London, where he worked at Queens Square Hospital and underwent an analysis with Edward Glover. After returning to the United States in 1930, he joined the New York Psychoanalytic Society—where, as a member of the Educational Committee, he played a crucial role in the formation of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1931.
Kubie was an active participant in the politics of both the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the American Psychoanalytic Association. In March 1938, in the wake of the Anschluss in Austria, he was appointed chair of APsaA's Emergency Relief and Immigration Committee, and played a crucial role in facilitating and overseeing the