Samuel Eisenstein; Educator in Psychoanalysis

Samuel Eisenstein, 83, innovative educator in psychoanalysis and former dean and president of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. Eisenstein, the first psychiatric resident at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, was co-author of “Psychoanalytic Pioneers (1966-1995),” a study of the lives and works of early theorists and clinicians. He created the prototype program to bridge academic study with clinical and theoretical psychoanalysis. His work helped create the California Research Psychoanalyst Law in 1977. Born in Bacau, Romania, Eisenstein studied medicine in Italy and at the University of Pavia. During World War II, he aided American and British prisoners of war in Italy. He later worked for the U.S. Information Service in Rome. In 1950, he moved to Los Angeles to practice and teach. Eisenstein was a founder of Congregation Anshe Emis. On Oct. 14 in Los Angeles.