From Freud to Gehrig to Rapaport to DiMaggio

Abstract

Lacking the size, talent, and speed to play shortstop for the New York Yankees, I chose instead to become a psychologist/psychoanalyst. Yet, baseball and psychoanalysis share much in common. Each is played in the inner diamonds of one's mind, values the past and what is passing, and requires a strong work ethic. Both are timeless and involve an almost boring leisureliness between occasional moments of crisis. Then too, each calls for an attitude of consistency and patience and a responsibility to do one's best. From my parents and brother to my wife and son and his family, from my teachers and supervisors to my colleagues, and from Menninger to the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA), I feel deeply grateful for the partners and teammates I have and have had.

Concepts of Development and the Rorschach: The Contributions of Paul Lerner and John Exner in Historical Context

“…A postdoctoral fellow at the Menninger Clinic from 1964 to 1966, the period when Kernberg (1967) was articulating his theories of borderline phenomena there, Lerner (2004) became committed to Rapaport's psychoanalytic approach to the Rorschach at a time when the chief clinical challenge was adapting it to incorporate new thinking about severe psychopathology. This problem, above all others, gave shape to his work through the rest of his life.…”