Bob Rodman

Dr. F. Robert Rodman, the distinguished psychoanalyst and scholar of the works of Donald Winnicott, died on November 15, 2004, aged seventy years, in Santa Monica, California, after complications from a stroke. A respected practitioner of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for many decades, Dr. Rodman will best be remembered for his passionate devotion to the furtherance of the work of Dr. Donald Winnicott, which he accomplished not only through his teaching and his clinical work, but through the publication of a much-admired collection of Winnicott's correspondence (1987), and through the completion of Rodman's (2003) own full-length biography of Winnicott, upon which he had worked for many long years.

F. Robert Rodman, M.D., a leading psychoanalyst, is also the author of Not Dying ("A superbly intelligent, courageous testament"- San Francisco Examiner) and Keeping Hope Alive, as well as the editor of a much-admired volume of Winnicott's letters, The Spontaneous Gesture

Born on February 3, 1934, Rodman completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, and then qualified as a physician from the Boston University Medical School.