ABSTRACT
This chapter considers Franz Alexander’s personal and professional life, the role of family in his decisions, and how those decisions affected other family members. The descendants of his wife’s father and uncle, Judah and Pinkus Broessler, came together twice for family reunions, once in La Jolla, and a second time we travelled together from Vienna to Uhersky Brod in the Czech Republic, on to Budapest and back to Vienna. The author's cousin Robin echoed his feelings recently and said he felt like a lost child as his father and mother told him nothing of the Alexander family either. He think that Franz Alexander’s legacy was his commitment to research, his progressive ideas about the practice of psychoanalysis, be they a shortened period of analysis, lay analysts, or the corrective emotional experience.
