1959
I chose the Baruch School of CCNY because I lived in New York City, the cost was reasonable, and it was a school that had a great reputation. It was the most transformative experience of my life. I started out in some business program not understanding why I was doing that, and by the third semester, I almost failed out.The following semester I took a Psychology 1 course with Dr. John Bauer, the person who became my mentor, and one of the most influential teachers in my entire school career. I was fascinated by the material, basically psychoanalytic and absolutely new to me. I dropped all my business courses and started taking liberal arts and became psychology major.. There was a group of us who were interested in liberal arts, and there were professors in the English( Prof. William Levy), History (Prof. Jane Gadol, and professors Bauer and Dryman in the Psychology Department, all of whom who were interesting, intellectually challenging and committed teachers.. I was then almost a straight A student for the rest of my time at Baruch College. I was then accepted at the University of California, Berkeley for a PhD program in psychology, and went on to become a psychologist and psychoanalyst. My work career started with a post-doctoral fellowships at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge MA.\, following that I directed the student mental health service at Princeton University for almost 35 years. Currently, I am in private practice as a psychologist. i also Apart from my mentor, there were also a number of other individuals who were incredible. I Dwas totally grateful for that experience, and it actually changed my life dramatically.