Harold Searles
Harold Searles | |
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| Born | Harold Frederic Searles September 1, 1918 Hancock, New York, U.S. |
| Died | November 18, 2015 (aged 97) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Cornell University Harvard Medical School |
| Known for | Psychoanalytic works |
| Spouse | Sulvii "Sylvia" Manninen |
| Children | 3, including Sandra Dickinson |
| Relatives | Georgia Tennant (granddaughter) Ty Tennant (great-grandson) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine Psychiatry |
Harold Frederic Searles (September 1, 1918 – November 18, 2015) was one of the pioneers of psychiatric medicine specializing in psychoanalytic treatments of schizophrenia. Searles had the reputation of being a therapeutic virtuoso with difficult and borderline patients; and of being, in the words of Horacio Etchegoyen, president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, "not only a great analyst but also a sagacious observer and a creative and careful theoretician".