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Leila Lerner was a member of NPAP (The National Psychological Institute for Psychoanalysis) until her death on January 22, 2019. She studied at Hunter College and the New School before entering NPAP in 1964, and upon graduating in 1971, taught at the Institute, including the first course given on borderline patients. In an article entitled, “My Psychoanalytic Journey” (reprinted in vol. 100, no. 3 of The Psychoanalytic Review), Leila remarked that she was “happy at NPAP where an attitude of openness and respect for all viewpoints has been a steadfast policy.”
Leila served as Editor of The Psychoanalytic Review from 1978 to 1988, then as Editor in Chief from 1988 to 1989. She developed special issues on psychoanalysis both as a clinical discipline and as an important aspect of social and scientific thought. These included: Papers in Honor of Esther Menaker (vol. 71, no. 1), Women and Individuation: Emerging Views (vol. 69, no. 1), Toward a New Psychology of Men: Psychoanalytic and Social Perspectives (vol. 73, no. 4), The Persistence of Myth (vol. 75, no. 1), and Child Survivors of the Holocaust (vol. 75, no. 4).
Following are tributes by colleagues and friends.