Adolph Stern

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Adolph Stern (1879- 20 August 1958 [1] or 22 August 1958 [2] [3] ) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is credited with producing the first formal account of Borderline personality. [4] [5] He worked with this group who he felt did not respond well to classical psychoanalytic work. [6] He argued that histories of trauma were very common and that more active and supportive techniques were required [4]

He arrived in the United States at the age of 4 from Hungary. [3] He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1898 from City University of New York and his MD from Columbia University. He then worked for 3 years as a resident physician at Kings Park Psychiatric Center. He then practiced in New York in Neurology and psychiatry. [2] He first became interested in Psychoanalysis in 1910 and by 1915 had joined the American Psychoanalytic Association. [1] From 1914 to 1917 he was affiliated with the Neurological and Vanderbilt Clinic. In 1920 he was analysed by Sigmund Freud. [1] Between 1920 and 1922 he was co-chief of the Mental Hygiene department of the Mount Sinai Hospital alongside Dr Oberndorf. [2]

From 1927 to 1928 he was president of the American Psychoanalytic Association. [1] He was also president of the New York Psychoanalytic Society on three separate occasions 1922–1923, 1924–1925, and 1940–1942. [1] Since the foundation of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1931 he was an instructor there and an emeritus instructor at the time of his death. [1]

He died on 20 [1] or 22 [2] [3] August 1958 following a short illness, whilst vacationing in his holiday home in New Jersey. [1] Other sources state he died of a heart attack in Lenox Hill Hospital. [3] Prior to his death he lived on 134 West Fiftyfifth Street, New York. [3] He was survived by his widow Mamie and brothers John, Albert, Benjamin and Peter. [3]

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