Ralph Greenson

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Dr. Ralph Greenson (born Romeo Samuel Greenschpoon, September 20, 1911 - November 24, 1979) was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Greenson is most famous for being Marilyn Monroe's psychiatrist. He also had other famous clients such as, Tony Curtis, Frank Sinatra, and Vivien Leigh.

He studied medicine in Switzerland and completed his own analysis by Wilhelm Stekel and again by Otto Fenichel in Los Angeles. He published psychoanalytic material often dealing with analyzability, beginning of analysis, interpretations, dreams, working through, acting out, countertransference, and termination.

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The Technique and Practice of Psychoanalysis. Vol. I: By Ralph R. Greenson. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1967. 452 pp. (Volume II of Ralph Greenson's much used, textbook of psychoanalysis was never written.)

Explorations in Psychoanalysis: By Ralph R. Greenson, M.D. New York: International Universities Press, Inc., 1978. 578 pp.