About the author (2002) Born in Cleveland, Ohio, to immigrant parents from Russia and Rumania, Louis Fierman won a competitive scholarship to Case Western Reserve University and then received early acceptance into its medical school. After graduation with honors, Fierman completed a rotating internship at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital and entered active duty in the Medical Corps. Assigned to Military Government in occupied Japan, he observed the desperate condition of neglected psychiatric patients in Japanese mental hospitals. On returning to civilian life in the U.S. in 1949, he entered residency training in internal medicine at Yale. After a year he switched to psychiatry with the encouragement of his psychologist wife. He was appointed Chief Resident at both the Yale Psychiatric Institute and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Psychiatric Service, has taught psychotherapy, and remains on the clinical faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. He entered psychoanalysis with Hellmuth Kaiser, a psychoanalyst who had broken with traditional orthodox psychoanalysis to devise new and more effective psychotherapy. After Kaiser's death, Dr. Fierman published an anthology of Kaiser's work in 1965. Dr. Fierman has been President of the Connecticut Psychiatric Society, Chief of the Psychiatric Service at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center, Medical Director of Elmcrest Psychiatric Institute, and is in private practice in New Haven, Connecticut, as Medical Director of Psychotherapy Associates. He is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Now semi-retired, he has returned to his childhood interest in classical music and plays the French horn in two local symphony orchestras. Louis B. Fierman Blue Dolphin Pub., 2002 - Psychiatry - 208 pages