Myron Sharaf
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Myron Ruscoll Sharaf (1927 – May 13, 1997) was an American writer and psychotherapist. He taught in the Department of Psychology at Harvard Medical School, and was the director of the Center for Sociopsychological Research and Education, Boston State Hospital and assistant clinical professor of psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine. [1] He is the author of Fury On Earth: A Biography of Wilhelm Reich (1983). [2]
Sharaf was a student, patient, and colleague of Wilhelm Reich's from 1948 to 1954. He obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1960.
He died of a heart attack in Berlin in 1997, after addressing a conference in Vienna marking Reich's centennial. [3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Kotin, Joel& Sharaf, Myron R. "Management succession an administrative style", Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, Volume 2, Number 1, June 1974. ISSN0894587X
- ^ "Myron Sharaf", Da Capo Press.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "Myron Sharaf, student, biographer and intrepreter of Wilhelm Reich, at 70", New York Times, May 24, 1997.
[edit] Further reading
- Kendrick, Walter. "The Analyst as Outsider", a review of Sharaf's biography of Reich, The New York Times, April 3, 1983.
- Reich, Robbie. "Ode to a Therapist", extract from Breathe; also published in the Journal of Family Life, Volume 3/4, 1997.
- Sharaf, Myron. Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich. First published St Martin's Press, 1983.
