Click Here to Read: Editors’ Introduction: The Empty Chair by Herbert M. Wyman, M.D. and Stephen M. Rittenberg, M.D.
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Click Here to Read: An Introduction to Child Psychoanalysis by Leon Hoffman, M.D., paper with discussion of the work of Robert Kabcenell.
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Click Here to Read: A Posthumous Paper by Robert Kabcenell: Some Aspects of the “Treatment Alliance” in Child Analysis.
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A Psychoanalytic Institute is an unusual community in many respects: insular, completely dedicated, its members very involved with each other: gossipy, carping, yet somehow strangely reliant on each other’s continued presence.
So it came as a stunning shock to the community of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to learn that one of its most active members would suddenly no longer occupy his familiar chair, teaching his course, and contributing to the deliberations of innumerable committees. Robert Kabcenell, M.D. was en route home from a YMHA concert on the night of April 26, 1991, when his life was snuffed out by a mugger.
We worked with Bob for years and are still trying to assimilate his absence. How sad it is when a psychoanalyst, with his irreplaceable training, dies prematurely. How agonizing it is when the circumstances of his death are so wanton.