Eugene Pumpian-Mindlin (Gene Mindlin) was born in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia in 1928, and the Doctor of Medicine from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1935.

He was trained in psychoanalysis, first at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (1938-1941) and subsequently at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute from which he was graduated in 1951. He was a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies at Princeton, New Jersey. In the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute he was a Training Analyst, and in the American Psychoanalytic Association he served in many capacities including Councilor-at-Large (1964-68) and Secretary (1967-69).

Throughout his professional career Gene made important clinical and theoretical contributions to medical and psychoanalytic literature and was the author of some 40 scientific articles. These included many practical papers on patient care, several on the problems of veterans, discussions of psychoanalytic theory in relationship to treatment, and to psychiatric and psychoanalytic education. He authored the section on Psychoanalysis for The Encyclopedia of Mental Health (1963).

Despite his many professional accomplishments, it is Gene's warmth, his kindness, and his deep and genuine care for others that everyone will miss the most. He was a person to whom other people were drawn during their most difficult moments in life. In fact, this gifted and sensitive man was so generous with his skills and with himself that an enormous share of his own life was truly given to others; quietly, cheerfully, effectively, and lovingly given away.

—Louis Jolyon West

—Michael T. McGuire