Peter B. Neubauer
Peter Bela Neubauer ( born July 5, 1913 in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria, † February 15, 2008 in New York City ) was an American child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Family
Peter Neubauer graduated in 1933 at the secondary school in Krems. He was in Krems the Socialist Youth League and in Vienna at the Zionist youth organization. After the Civil War in 1934, he decided with his brother Siegfried to emigrate to Switzerland. He studied medicine and emigrated to the U.S. in 1941. His sister Ruth emigrated to Palestine in the 1930s. His father Samuel Neubauer was cantor of the Jewish Community of Krems, and was chased by the Nazis in 1938 as part of the connection, he managed to escape to Palestine.
Psychoanalysis
Neubauer said in an interview: I have Freud found in the library in Krems and thought to myself, what says makes sense.
He was for decades held leading positions in the Anna Freud Foundation. He was co-founder of the Freud Museum in London. He was director of the Child Development Center, Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services. Chairman of the Child Analysis Section of the University of New York City. Founding member of the National Advisory Council of Clinical Infant Program at the National Institute of Mental Health.
He taught at Columbia University in New York and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New York University.
He was a founding member of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and the New York Council on Child Psychiatry. The International Association for Child Psychiatry and Allied Professions he stood as General Secretary.
Neubauer published mainly on the process of early childhood development.
He was editor of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, among others, with Anna Freud, with more than 50 volumes.