Timeline
1930
Graduated from Boys High School, Brooklyn, NY
1933
Graduated from Columbia University
1937
Received MD from University of Chicago
1939
Married Anita Buchwald
Residency in Neurology, Montefiore Hospital, NY
1941
Residency in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute
1942-45
Psychiatrist with the USAAF; rose to rank of Major
1947
Moved to Santa Monica and began study at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute
1952
“Analysis of a doll phobia” published in International Journal of Psychoanalysis; awarded International Clinical Essay Prize by the British Institute for Psychoanalysis
1953
Appointed to UCLA Dept of Psychiatry Staff
1954
“The psychology of poise” published in International Journal of Psychoanalysis; awarded International Clinical Essay Prize by the British Institute for Psychoanalysis
1954-55
President of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Society
1956
Appointed Training Analyst, Los Angeles Institute of Psychoanalysis
1956-57
President of the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society
1957
Appointed Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA
1957-60
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1959
“The nature of conversion” (most cited article) published in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1961-62
President, American Psychoanalytic Association
1963-63
Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
1963-66
Editorial Board, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
1964-65
President, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society
1966-67
President, American Psychoanalytic Association
1967-68
Vice-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
1969-71
President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
1970
Freud Anniversary Lecture, Psychoanalytic Association of New York
1971
Fellow, Simon R. Guggenheim Foundation
1971
Presentation of Sigmund Freud Medal to Anna Freud
1971-73
President of the International Psychoanalytic Association
1976
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
1980
The Mind of Watergate
1980
Honorary Member, Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
1985
Heinz Hartmann Award, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
1986
Honorary Member, Southern California Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
1987
Medical Alumni Award for Distinguished Service, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
1988
Visiting Scholar, Sigmund Freud Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1990
The Human Core, volumes 1 and 2
1991
Mary S. Sigourney Trust Award for Psychoanalysis
1991
Visiting Professor, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
1992
Visiting Professor, Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
1995
Visiting Professor, California Graduate Institute of Psychology
1995
Undergoes heart bypass surgery; develops muscal synesthesia, the subject of his book, Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border
1997
Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytic Association for life
2000
Honorary Member, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
2004
My Life in Theory
2006
The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory
2009
Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border
May 28, 2011
Leo Rangell died at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was 97. LA Times obituary