In Memoriam

Remembering Ernest Lawrence 
and 
Leo Rangell

By Terrence McBride, PhD, FIPA

As was announced in the November, 2011 CIPS News Brief, Ernest S. Lawrence, PhD, FIPA died on August 13, 2011 in Santa Monica, California with his wife Anne by his side.

Ernie was a pillar of the psychoanalytic community in Los Angeles and nationally.  His numerous leadership roles, awards and honors in the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis are too many to mention, but several stand out.  Among them, Ernie was a driving force in the founding in 1970 of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS). It was the first interdisciplinary psychoanalytic institute on the West Coast. He was integrally involved in every aspect of the Institute's development and administration for the next 40 years. He was also the first President of LAISPS, with a second term from 1999 to 2001, the first Dean and Director of Training for two terms from 1977 to 1983, and Chairperson of the Committee for Training Analysts, from 1994 to 1996. In all of the positions that Ernie held he was innovative and indefatigable in his leadership and efforts to make LAISPS a rigorous and scholarly, yet open and welcoming organization.

LAURENCE J. GOULD, Ph.D.

The entire CIPS community mourns the loss of Dr. Laurence J. Gould who died on May 26th ofnatural causes. Larry was an esteemed and central member of IPTAR, Director of IPTAR’sSocio-Analytic Organizational Consultation Program, a member of IPTAR’s Board of Directorsand Chair of the Organizational Review Committee as well as the Allied Training Programs. Larry was...

RUTH LAX, Ph.D.

Dr. Ruth Lax passed away in her home the morning of January 31, 2010. She was a training andsupervisory analyst as well as a member of the faculties of both IPTAR and the NY FreudianSociety. In addition, she belonged to 17 other professional organizations. She had recently retiredfrom her practice in New York City. The author of several books, Dr. Lax also publishednumerous articles in psychoanalytic journals. She chaired a study group investigating thepsychoanalytic causes of socially sanctioned violence against women. Her first...

RUTH STEIN, Ph.D.

The entire psychoanalytic community was shocked and saddened at the news of Dr. Ruth Stein’ssudden death in NYC on January 17, 2010. Dr. Stein had been attending APsaA’s 2010 NationalMeeting at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in NYC, where she was awarded the JAPA Prize for herpaper, “The Otherness of Sexuality: Excess”, first published in JAPA in 2008. Tragically, shesuffered a massive stroke shortly after she received this honor. At the end of one of the sessions,she suddenly lost consciousness and was rushed to the hospital. She died two days later.

Dr. Stein had been a member of IPTAR and was on their faculty. In addition, she was...