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Curriculum Vitae

Education

1954-1958    Candidate – Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1953-1956    Residency – Brentwood V.A. Neuropsychiatric Hospital

1952-1953    Internship – Mount Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia

1948-1952    M.D. – Temple University School of Medicine

1945-1947    B.A. Science and English – Temple University

1938-1942    B.S. English and French – West Chester State Teacher’s College

License

G2569    The Medical Board of California

Professional Experience

Present    Private psychoanalytic practice

1966-2006    Training and Supervising Analyst – Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1969-1972    Chairman – Admissions Committee, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1968-1972    Assistant Clinical Professor – UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Los Angeles, CA

1968-1971    Chairman – Program Committee, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1959-1966    Instructor – Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

1962-1964    Instructor – Extension Division, Reiss-Davis Child Study Center

1956-1957    Personal Advisor – Department of Vocational Rehabilitation, State of California

1956-1956    Instructor – UCLA Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Normal Brill, Chairman

1955-1956    First Resident – at the Reiss Davis Child Study Center, Los Angeles, CA

Published Books

2007    The Mother’s Signature: A Journal of Dreams – Beverly Hills, California: Master Publishing

2007    Irmgard’s Flute: A Memoir – Beverly Hills, California: Master Publishing

1991    The Freud-Klein Controversies (1973-1977) – Los Angeles: The Testing Ground and Final Solution, Beverly Hills, California: Published privately

Papers and Articles

2004

The Hum of the Universe – Paper presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association Discussion Group: Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis: San Francisco, June 23, 2004

2003

The Very First Lie – Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute/Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute Extension Division Program: The Living Experience of the Infant in the Adult. Day-long presentation with Bernard W. Bail, M.D. September 20, 2003

2002

Toward a Unitary Theory of Body and Mind – Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Special Day Event: Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis: The Work of Bernard Bail, M.D.” October 12, 2002

All Things in Heaven – Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Master Clinician Series: The Mother’s Signature: The Living Experience of the Infant in the Adult. Day-long presentation with Bernard Bail, M.D., May, 25, 2002

2001

Psychoanalysis and the Fisher King – Les Etats Generaux De La Psychoanalyse on the brink of a new millennium. Paris, La Sorbonne

Wounded Infants of Time – Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Master Clinician Series: Bernard Bail, M.D., October 20, 2001

The Mother’s Signature – Paper presented at the American Psychoanalytic Association Discussion Group: Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis, New Orleans, May, 2001, and Also Chapter 1 of The Mother’s Signature – A Journal of Dreams, Beverly Hills, California: Master Publishing, 2007

1999

When Bion left Los Angeles – Paper presented at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Master Clinician Series: Bernard Bail, M.D., October 28, 2000

1997

Infancy and the essential nature of work – Bail, Bernard and Reiner, Annie – In (Eds.) Charles Socarides and Selma Kramer, Work and its Inhibitions. New York: International Universities Press, Pp. 61-78

1990

A History of Object Relations in Los Angeles – videocassette

1977

To Practice One’s Art – in (Ed). Grotstein, J., Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? A Memorial to Wilfred Bion. Beverly Hills: Caseura Press, 1981, Pp. 61-81

1965

The Analysis of a Bequest – Paper presented to the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. This paper detailed Dr. Bail’s analytic work with a dying patient who bequeathed to Dr. Bail $750,000 which he gave to the Institute. This financial donation funded the building of the Institute headquarters at 2014 Sawtelle Avenue, Los Angeles, California

Conferences

2001 – Present    Chair, on-going discussion group Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis – American Psychoanalytic Association, annual meetings

11/18/2006    Fifty Years of Psychoanalysis – A Conversation with Bernard W. Bail, M.D., Part III, Ritz Carlton Hotel, Marina Del Rey, California, day-long presentation

11/12/2005    Fifty Years of Psychoanalysis – A Conversation with Bernard W. Bail, M.D., Part II; Lux Hotel, Brentwood, California, day-long presentation

11/6/2004    Fifty Years of Psychoanalysis – A Conversation with Bernard W. Bail, M.D., Part I; Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute, day-long presentation.

09/20/2003    The Very First Lie – paper by Dr. Bernard Bail presented; Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute/Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute Extension Division, Day Long Program: The Living Experience of the Infant in the Adult

10/12/2003    A Unitary Theory of Body and Mind – paper by Dr. Bernard Bail presented; Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Special Day Event: Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis

09/2002    Freud, Klein, Object Relations and A New Paradigm for Psychoanalysis – lectured, presented at the invitation of the Director of Psychiatry, Dr. Qin Wei; the University of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

05/25/2002    All Things In Heaven – presented by Dr. Bernard Bail; Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute Spring 2002 Master Clinician Series: The Mother’s Signature: The Living Experience of the Infant in the Adult

10/01-03/1999    Lecture on “The Making of a Mind” – and case consultations; the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg-Mannheim, Heidelberg, Germany

1992-1994    Lecture series on “The Making of a Mind” – Sofitel Hotel, Los Angeles, California

06/29/1991    On the Power of the Internal Object World – presented at the Society for Psychoanalytic Education and Research Conference; Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, California

06/28/1990    On the Internal Object World – presented at the Society for Psychoanalytic Education and Research Conference; Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles. California

Professional Membership

California Medical Association

Los Angeles County Medical Association

International Psychoanalytical Association

American Psychoanalytic Association

The Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute currently named The New Center for Psychoanalysis

Honors and Special Awards

awarded the following

1942-1945    Served in the Army Air Corp 2nd Air Division, 8th Air Force, 44th Bomb Group as a Lead Radar Navigator of B24 bombers

02/24/2006    The Distinguished Service Cross – presented by Vice President Dick Cheney at the White House, Washington, DC

06/18/2006    The French Legion of Honor – presented by the French Ambassador, Jean-David Levitte, at the French Embassy, Washington, D.C.

Three Distinguished Flying Crosses with two oak clusters

Purple Heart

Five Air Medals with five oak clusters

The European Theater of Operations with Five Battle Stars

Prisoner of War Medal

The 44th Bomb Group Presidential Citation

Book Awards – 2007

Irmgard’s Flute: A Memoir
Finalist, National “Best Books,” Hollywood Book Festival
Finalist, London Book Festival
Finalist, American Book Expo, Los Angeles, ForeWord Magazine

The Mother’s Signature: A Journal of Dreams
Finalist, American Book Expo, Los Angeles, ForeWord Magazine

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