E. James Lieberman

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine

E. James Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Emeritus, George Washington University School of Medicine, practiced psychotherapy in Washington D.C. for 40 years after serving as Chief, Center for Child and Family Mental Health, NIMH in the 1960s. He has written extensively on Otto Rank, most recently editing The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis(2012). Other areas of interest are sex education and family planning, couples therapy, and nonviolent conflict resolution. Hobbies include cello playing, swimming, genealogy and Esperanto. First-hand experience in male-male competition includes chess and wrestling in high school and college (U.C. Berkeley), and going through medical school (U.C.S.F. ’58) with 82 classmates, 79 of whom were men.

Participant In:

Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence

Saturday, October 27th
2:30 - 4:30PM

Past Event

Little attention is paid to the fact that in his book, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Darwin devoted twelve chapters to male-male competition (describing it as “the law of battle”), detailing intra-species male morphological and behavioral differences from molluscs through mammals, arriving finally and specifically at human mammals. Though this “law”… read more »