Stephen Weissman
Stephen Weissman (* 1937 in Bronx ) is an American psychiatrist , psychoanalyst and biographer of Charles Chaplin .
Life
Weissman grew up as a child listening to workers' songs and ballads from the Spanish Civil War , as his parents were members of the American Communist Party CPUSA . His maternal grandmother, who came from Russia, escaped the pogroms a few years before the start of the Russian Revolution and went to the USA. Here she saw the 1917 comedy film The Immigrants , which made her a lifelong supporter of Charles Chaplin. Her passion passed on to her grandson Stephen Weissman, who published a biography of Charles Chaplin in 2008.
Weissman is a professor at the Washington School of Psychiatry.
Publications
- Frederick Douglass . Portrait of a Black Militant. A Study in the Family Romance. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 30/1975, pp. 725-751
- His brother's keeper. A Psychobiography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge . Madison, CT 1989, ISBN 0823623424
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Chaplin. A life. Arcade Publishing, New York 2008
- German edition: Chaplin. A biography . Translated from English by Ulrike Seeberger. Foreword by Geraldine Chaplin . Structure, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-02708-7
Web links
- Homepage. Stephen Weissman, accessed April 6, 2012 .
- Stephen Weissman: Charlie Chaplin. American University Washington,accessed April 12, 2012.
- Stephen Weissman: Frederick Douglass. Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing,accessed April 6, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weissman, Stephen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weissman, Stephen M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx |