Leon Wurmser

Dr. Leon Wurmser was first therapist in Baltimore when I had just graduated college. I was at the time mourning the death of my father and trying to find my path in life.. Having grown up in a tight Jewish community in upper Park Heights, I was a typical American Jewish girl without great aspriations other than marriage and family. He was the first person who implored me to look at my value system and to appreciate my intellectual abilities, and to open my mind to scholarship. With his...

This is incredibly late, but my name is Dr. Alexandria Peck Berger. My husband was the late Dr. Alexander Berger and the best friend of Leon´s brother, Peter. They were all students together at the University of Zurich. Many years ago when visiting the States we had dinner at Leon´s home in Maryland. Leon had just finished an important paper and he sent it to me at my home in Australia. I still have it. Tge last time we saw Peter wS in Switzerland when my husband was ill and Peter´s sight was...

I'm sorry for your loss: Greetings from Germany!
Mr. Wurmser was such a brillant, warm-heartet, empathetic psychologist and added so many good thougts and theories. I'm really glad vor his life-work.
Best wishes for you!
Sonja Gro

My PhD thesis built on the Wurmser's theory about the craving in psychoanalityc approach. I'll miss Leon Wurmser's wise and very clear and ethical behaviour.

R.I.P.

Dr Maria Hoyer PhD from Budapest, Hungary