Leo Rangell: The Journey of a Developed Freudian

Throughout his career Leo Rangell has been a major contributor to the scholarly corpus of psychoanalysis. He has been a strong advocate for an important theme—the unification of psychoanalytic theory. He has been a man on a mission—the development of what he calls “total composite psychoanalytic theory.” He has added significantly to our understanding of clinical and theoretical issues and provided us with wise input on complex group, organizational, and political dilemmas. His ideas have matured and deepened over the years as they have been refined by the inclusion of new data. His work has focused on how intrapsychic events lead to action as they affect and are affected by the varieties of human experience. The body of his work includes over 450 articles and eight books, and he continues to write and contribute to our science. He is often engaged in a dialogue with the profession about the significant issues of the day—original but always anchored in sound psychoanalytic theory, grounded in the works of Freud and his successors, chief among them Heinz Hartmann, Otto Fenichel, David Rapaport, Anna Freud, and Edith Jacob-son. He writes from a position of psychoanalytic leadership: twice President of the International Psychoanalytic Association, twice President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and three times President of his local Society. Dr. Rangell is currently Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Throughout his professional career he has been at the center of the psychoanalytic world and from that vantage point he has witnessed and contributed to the great debates for more than half a century. In this paper, our aim is to present an overview