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Martin A. Schulman, Ph.D., psychoanalyst, former member of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP), and editor of The Psychoanalytic Review from 1989 to 2004, passed away on November 4, 2014. He was seventy years old. His wife, Ricki Kaplan, described his death as unexpected and without warning, due to an arterial embolism that originated from a blood clot in his leg.
Dr. Schulman was born and raised in the Bronx, New York, to a Viennese Jewish family with strongly progressive views, where reading, music, art, and sports were emphasized. As he recalled, “the values were humanistic, caring, appreciative of cultural diversity, enlightened, and relatively non narcissistic … [but] simultaneously … tinged with a Central European elitism. Excellence and standards were required … [and] there was contempt for superficiality …” (Schulman, 1998, pp. 250-251). After high school, he attended City College of New York, intending to major in biology but graduating with a concentration in psychology. He continued his education and earned his Ph.D. in psychology at the New School, with a doctoral dissertation on person perception utilizing R. D. Laing's Personal Perception Scale. Even though the family was not psychoanalytically attuned, he entered analysis during graduate school and, in 1972, began psychoanalytic training at NPAP.
Schulman's involvement in political issues was a prominent aspect of his persona and an important influence throughout his development. He participated in groups such as the Congress of Racial Equality, the Student Peace Union, the Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the Vietnam antiwar movement, which to him was like “a second home and a second family” (Schulman, 1998, p. 252). Looking back at his undergraduate years, Marty wrote, “College became a synthesis of my two passions, intellectual immersion and political activity …” (Schulman, 1998, p. 251). Through his life, he remained idealistic and alw