ARTHUR WEIDER

WEIDER--Arthur, died November 8th at his home in Manhattan. He was 91 years old. A perfectly content and optimistic man, Arthur's generosity and trust were absolute. A practicing clinical psychologist until his death, he developed and held the copyright to the Cornell Index, a psychological instrument used to screen inductees in WWII and still in use by police departments around the world. Born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bronx, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School and Columbia University before earning a Ph.D. at New York University, in whose alumni association he was active. He served on the medical staffs of New York Hospital and Roosevelt Hospital and on the faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, also teaching for many years at the Bellevue School of Nursing. Known to early cable television viewers as "The People's Psychologist", he often conducted therapy sessions in the dining rooms of the restaurants and nightclubs he owned on Manhattan's East Side during the 1970s and 80s. The two horses he owned on the harness racing circuit in the late 1960's were celebrated for preferentially winning on Jewish holidays. His publications included text books of psychology and an autobiography, published in 1994. He is survived by his wife, Sissie, five children, five grandchildren, a great-granddaughter and a sister.