Repetition and Trauma: Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis

Max M. Stern (1895-1982) received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Heidelberg and Frankfurt am Main and his psychoanalytic training at the Institute of the Palestine Psychoanalytic Association, from which he graduated in 1938. Following his emigration to the United States in 1947, he practiced psychoanalysis in New York and served as a training analyst and faculty member at both the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Division of Psychoanalytic Education at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. A past president of the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, Dr. Stern was the author of 18 papers on early psychobiological development and the integration of psychoanalysis with biology.