Dr. Strauss, professor emeritus at Yale Medical School, is a renowned psychiatrist who specialized in understanding the long-term course of severe mental illness. His numerous professional awards and more than 200 published articles reflect his training by seminal gestalt psychologists such as Wolfgang Kohler and Solomon Asch and his study with Jean Piaget. But to sum up his life in this way would do his own personhood a disservice since it would neglect the equally-critical time spent sailing on the Great Lakes, hitchhiking across country, walking springer spaniels, leading writing groups in the US and Europe "Writing Creatively about Clinical Experiences", and having coffee and conversation with friends, colleagues and his children Sarah and Jeff. He lives in New Haven, Ct.
