Robert S. Wallerstein (January 28, 1921 – December 21, 2014) was a prominent German-born Americanpsychoanalyst.[1] He headed the Psychotherapy Research Project of theMenninger Foundation[2] and was president of theInternational Psychoanalytical Association.[3]
His parents, Sara Günsberg (born in 1895) and Menachem Lazar Wallerstein (born in 1890), werePolish Jews and both came fromGalicja. Because of theWorld War I, they moved toBerlin, where in 1919 they got married. Two years later, Robert was born and his original name was Solomon. In 1923, Wallerstein family emigrated toNew York, where his brotherImmanuel was born.[4] Robert S. Wallerstein was born in Germany, but at theList of alien passengers for the United States at the time of his family's emigration, his nationality was described as Polish.[4]
Wallerstein was raised inThe Bronx, then moved toTopeka, Kansas in 1949 and toBelvedere, California in 1966,[5] where he died on December 21, 2014. He was predeceased by his son, the noted political scientistMichael Wallerstein and his wifeJudith Wallerstein[6]
As a director of research at Menninger and the project's principal investigator, it fell to Dr. Robert Wallerstein, a former director of Menninger Research, to record the breadth of the study's findings in a thick volume titled, 42 Lives in Treatment-A Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.
