Léon Wurmser

is MD of Towson, Maryland, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (emeritus) at the University of West Virginia at Charleston and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society. Wurmser was born in 1931 in Switzerland. He studied medicine in Zurich an Basle specialising on psychiatry. In the 1960’s, he emigrated to the USA. He was Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program at the University of Maryland. Recently, his work focuses on historical and social questions from a psychoanalytical perspective.