“Love’s Not Time’s Fool”: Some Continuities, Discontinuities, and Alterations in Psychoanalysis During My Lifetime

Anton O. Kris is a Professor of Psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School. He has been a psychiatrist for more than fifty-five years, a psychoanalyst for fifty years, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute for nearly forty years. He is the author of Free Association: Method and Process, along with numerous papers. Dr. Kris has served on the editorial boards of several of the major psychoanalytic journals and is currently the Chair of the Monitoring and Advisory Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He has also served on the board of trustees of The Anna Freud Centre, The Anna Freud Foundation, and the Sigmund Freud Archives, of which he was recently Executive Director. He received the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society. He regards himself as more a teacher than an innovator.
CONTACT Anton O. Kris, MD 16 Channing Place, Cambridge, MA 02138-3307, USA.