ABSTRACT
Dr. Bellak was born in 1916. He studied at the University of Vienna Medical School, received an M.A. degree in Psychology from Boston University in 1939 and an M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1942. He obtained the M.D. degree at New York Medical College in 1944. He took his postgraduate psychiatric training at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. and at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. He is lecturer in Psychology at New York University and at the New School for Social Research, and Associate in Psychiatry at New York Medical College and the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital. His work is divided among the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, research in psychiatry and psychology, and teaching—primarily the TAT. He is author of the books Dementia Praecox, Manic-Depressive Psychosis, the Children’s Apperception Test, and co-editor ofProjective Psychology.
