Robert S. Wallerstein (January 28, 1921 – December 21, 2014) was a prominent German-born American psychoanalyst. He headed the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation and was president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
His parents, Sara Günsberg (born in 1895) and Menachem Lazar Wallerstein (born in 1890), were Polish Jews and both came from Galicja. Because of the World War I, they moved to Berlin, where in 1919 they got married. Two years later, Robert was born and his original name was Solomon. In 1923, Wallerstein family emigrated to New York, where his brother Immanuel was born. Robert S. Wallerstein was born in Germany, but at the List of alien passengers for the United States at the time of his family's emigration, his nationality was described as Polish.
Wallerstein was raised in The Bronx, then moved to Topeka, Kansas in 1949 and to Belvedere, California in 1966,wallerstein memorial Retrieved 2016-12-15. where he died on December 21, 2014. He was predeceased by his son, the noted political scientist Michael Wallerstein and his wife Judith Wallerstein
Writings (selection) Hospital treatment of alcoholism : a comparative, experimental study, New York : Basic Books, 1957 Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy: An Historical Perspective, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 1989, 70:563-591 The talking cures : the psychoanalyses and the psychotherapies, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995 Lay analysis : life inside the controversy, Hillsdale, NJ: Analytic Press, 1998 Forty-two lives in treatment : a study of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy: the report of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation, 1954-1982, New York : Other Press, 2000 The Generations of Psychotherapy Research: An Overview. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 18:243-267 (2001) Psychoanalysis: The Broader Scope, International Universities Press, 2004
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References Psychic structure and psychic change : essays in honor of Robert S. Wallerstein, ed. by Mardi J. Horowitz, Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, 1993 From Impression to Inquiry: A Tribute to the work of Robert Wallerstein, edited by Wilma Bucci, Norbert Freedman, International Psychoanalytical Association, 2007, , Paperback, includes a bibliography of Wallerstein