ABSTRACT
While a resident, the author did a great deal of teaching in order to pay for his training psychoanalysis and as part of his contribution to the University of Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute in gratitude for his training. Looking back at those years, he sadly recalled, “It was during his residency in 1957 that you died of a coronary at the age of fifty-one, George, even a little younger than his children are now, and at the prime of life. He realized he was on his own as far as research was concerned. Straus had an uncanny ability to make every case a teaching case and, simultaneously, a demonstration of how a sensitive phenomenologist could elicit from any patient material a sense of vivid lived immediacy. A phenomenon is whatever appears to us immediately in experience. Husserl’s method rested on what he called “transcendental–phenomenological reduction”.
