Roland Kaufhold

Recollection

HR Greenberg M.D.

I met Dr Buxbaum briefly when I was 4th Infantry Division Psychiatrist in

l965, stationed at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. I was prepared to be

intimidated, as I had been meeting famous old guard analysts during my

psychiatric training, Bettelheim included -- who I very much thought wanted

one to feel that way. Much to my surprise, she was charming, witty, and had

many intriguing things to say not only about psychoanalysis but the wider

world, during what was, as I recall, a social evening rather than any kind of

professional meeting.

I found Buxbaum's thoughts on the maternal child symbiosis invaluable in work

published about ten years later on the vicissitudes of omnipotent fantasies

during adolescence.

Thanks. HR Greenberg MD ENDIT

Jan 2002