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Psychosomatic Medicine 65:331 (2003)
© 2003 American Psychosomatic Society

IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam: Herbert Weiner

Herbert Weiner, MD, Dr. Med Hon, died on November 12, 2002 at the age of 81 years. Weiner was Editor-in-Chief of Psychosomatic Medicine from 1972 to 1982. He chaired the department of psychiatry at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx from 1969 to 1982 and then joined the UCLA department of psychiatry as a distinguished professor and head of behavioral medicine. He authored over 200 papers, edited many books, and sole authored classic texts such as Psychobiology and Human Disease (1977) and Perturbing the Organism: the Biology of Successful Experience (1992) Go.



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  		Herbert Weiner

 
Professor Weiner was born in Vienna. He graduated from Harvard magna cum laude and obtained his MD degree from Columbia. His early research at Walter Reed continues to be influential. He was an extremely productive researcher at Albert Einstein and managed to continue this enormous research productivity, even while shouldering a heavy administrative load at Montefiore and later at UCLA. Professor Weiner was a superb editor—tough and fair—and as a result, Psychosomatic Medicine flourished as an exceptionally well-regarded academic journal. He gave of his time generously to the American Psychosomatic Society in countless other ways as well, including being President of the Society in 1971 to 1972.

This kind of information, common to any obituary, sadly fails to capture the spirit of the man. Herb was a passionate researcher and an indefatigable mentor who maintained close ties with his trainees long after they completed his formal tutelage. Phone conversations with him were a singular pleasure, punctuated as they were with his warmth, erudition, acerbic sense of humor, his grasp of history of medicine and the contemporary frontiers of medicine. He trained generations of psychiatrists in New York and in Los Angeles. An indicator of his personal impact is the fact that within the past year, his trainees and colleagues endowed the "Herbert Weiner Early Career Award" of the American Psychosomatic Society.

Herb’s last years were not easy. Limited by painful arthritis and then cancer, he nonetheless continued his life as he had long lived it—reading the most recent medical literature, writing monographs on the history of medicine, corresponding with his friends all over the world, and loving his family with fervor. All of us in the American Psychosomatic Society have been touched by his life and feel the impact of his scientific and personal contributions. The poet Dylan Thomas commented "And death shall have no dominion." For Herb, those words are very true indeed. We will miss him, but he left an indelible imprint; truly, death shall have no dominion.

Joel E. Dimsdale, MD

Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0804

Email: jdimsdale{at}ucsd.edu





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