Lawrence kubie biography

Lawrence Schlesinger Kubie (17 March – 27 October ) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who practiced in New York City from to ^[1] Kubie had several celebrity patients, including Tennessee Williams, Leonard Bernstein, Moss Hart, Kurt Weill, Vivien Leigh and Sid Caesar.

Life

After graduating from Harvard College in , Kubie took a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in and later became a Freudian psychoanalyst.^[1] He was a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, the Yale School of Medicine and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and was on the staffs of the Neurological Institute of New York and Mount Sinai Hospital.^[1]

Kubie wrote two books, Practical and Theoretical Aspects of Psychoanalysis and Neurotic Distortion of the Creative Process, and many articles.

He was the editor of The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.^[1] He was formerly president of the New York