Peter B. Neubauer
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Dr. Peter Neubauer was a noted child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Among his many roles, he served as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU, Past President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and Former Secretary General of the International Association of Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions. He was a founding member of the National Center for Clinical Infant Programs, later to become ZERO TO THREE, and a founding member of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry. He served on the board of the Sigmund Freud Archives
, was a member of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and from 1951 to 1985 was director of the Child Development Center of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in Manhattan.
His was one of a small number of Jewish families in Krems, Austria, where he was born on July 5, 1913. Neubauer received his medical training at the University of Vienna and The University of Bern, in Switzerland, to which he escaped during the Nazi control of Austria. He completed his psychiatric training in Bern in 1941, then emigrated to The United States, where he took a position on the staff of Bellevue Hospital. In an early influential paper, “The One-Parent Child and His Oedipal Development,” 1960, Neubauer reminded readers that a father absence could jeopardize child development as seriously as maternal deprivation. He worked closely with Anna Freud at the Hamstead Child Therapy Clinic in London, and from the 1970s to his death, Dr. Neubauer was a co-editor of “The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child,” an annual review of new findings in child therapy and analysis published at Yale.
Books include Nature's Thumbprint: The New Genetics of Personality, [Addison Wesley, 1990], which includes discussion of a controversial study of adoptive twin
s (five sets) and triplet
s (one set) separated at birth. According to NPR
, at the conclusion of the study in 1980, Dr. Neubauer feared that public opinion would be against the study and declined to publish it. The records of the study are sealed at the Yale University Library
until 2066.
Neubauer died on February 15, 2008 at the age of 94.
Sigmund Freud Archives
The Sigmund Freud Archives mainly consist of a trove of documents housed at the US Library of Congress and in the former residence of Sigmund Freud during the last year of his life at 20 Maresfield Gardens in northwest London...
, was a member of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and from 1951 to 1985 was director of the Child Development Center of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in Manhattan.
His was one of a small number of Jewish families in Krems, Austria, where he was born on July 5, 1913. Neubauer received his medical training at the University of Vienna and The University of Bern, in Switzerland, to which he escaped during the Nazi control of Austria. He completed his psychiatric training in Bern in 1941, then emigrated to The United States, where he took a position on the staff of Bellevue Hospital. In an early influential paper, “The One-Parent Child and His Oedipal Development,” 1960, Neubauer reminded readers that a father absence could jeopardize child development as seriously as maternal deprivation. He worked closely with Anna Freud at the Hamstead Child Therapy Clinic in London, and from the 1970s to his death, Dr. Neubauer was a co-editor of “The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child,” an annual review of new findings in child therapy and analysis published at Yale.
Books include Nature's Thumbprint: The New Genetics of Personality, [Addison Wesley, 1990], which includes discussion of a controversial study of adoptive twin
Twin
A twin is one of two offspring produced in the same pregnancy. Twins can either be monozygotic , meaning that they develop from one zygote that splits and forms two embryos, or dizygotic because they develop from two separate eggs that are fertilized by two separate sperm.In contrast, a fetus...
s (five sets) and triplet
Multiple birth
A multiple birth occurs when more than one fetus is carried to term in a single pregnancy. Different names for multiple births are used, depending on the number of offspring. Common multiples are two and three, known as twins and triplets...
s (one set) separated at birth. According to NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
, at the conclusion of the study in 1980, Dr. Neubauer feared that public opinion would be against the study and declined to publish it. The records of the study are sealed at the Yale University Library
Yale University Library
Yale University Library is the library system of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. It is the second-largest academic library in the North America, with approximately 12.5 million volumes housed in 20 buildings on campus...
until 2066.
Neubauer died on February 15, 2008 at the age of 94.