I received my training at the University of Toronto School of Medicine because I wanted to be a psychoanalyst, not a doctor. In those days it was necessary to be a physician to become an analyst. I had read "Moses and Monotheism" and could not believe Moses was an Egyptian. So I read another book by Freud and another and in each one I thought he was writing about me. Hence my decision to become an analyst.
After my internship in New York, I was lucky enough to get my residency training at Boston State Hospital, where I met Elvin Semrad, who got me interested in treating psychosis and doing group therapy. I was there 11 years, while I got my analytic training. Then I moved into private practice. In those days I was able to see ten analytic patients five times a week.
Also, I have been training residents, psychologists, social workers and nurses at Massachusetts Mental Health Center and Boston University School of Medicine, as well as other places, for 40 years.
I have published in both fields. Some of my writing was with Elvin Semrad about psychoses. In this way I met many residents in psychiatry from the best to the worst. One was a Nobel Prize winner and some sociopaths. It gave me a deep insight into what moves people to come into this field. My appreciation of this stems from my work in psychoanalysis. Some of this I try to convey to students at the Massachusetts General Hospital in my course "Layers of Analytic Theories".