William Frank Weber

August 2, 1927 – November 4, 2004

 

 

Dr. William Frank Weber died November 4th in San Francisco, aged 77, of lung cancer.

 

His wife Sheila died of the same disease on May 21st (http://newsservice.stanford.edu/news/2004/august18/obit-weber-818.html).

 

He is survived by his son Marc Weber and daughter-in-law Raffaella Buschiazzo, of San Francisco, and sister-in-law Terry Kaplan of Los Angeles.

 

He was a graduate of Music and Art high school in Manhattan, Ursinus College in Pennsylvania, and the University of Pennsylvania medical school. His psychiatric residency was at Rockland State Hospital, N.Y. He took his psychoanalytic training at the William Alanson White Institute in Manhattan. After moving to the San Francisco Peninsula in the mid-60s he ran a private practice in Menlo Park until he was diagnosed with cancer in the spring of 2003.

 

He served on the clinical faculty at Stanford for the same period, and as Director of the Individual Psychotherapy Clinic there from 1993 to 1998. He taught and consulted extensively at a number of institutions. He was a founding member of the Lindemann Seminar, now in its 34th year. He and his wife served as Resident Fellows to a Stanford dormitory from 1975 to 1985.

 

To the very end he faced his death with enormous courage, openness to others, dark wit, and humanity. A memorial will be held on Sunday, December 5th, at 7:30 PM at the Stanford Faculty Club. Contributions in his name may be made to the Financial Aid Fund of City and Country School, at 146 West 13th St., New York, NY 10011.

 

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CURRICULUM  VITAE

 

William F. Weber, M.D.

 

 

Background

 

  Place of birth:   Ridgefield, New Jersey, U.S.A.

  Date of Birth:    August 2, 1927

 

Education

 

  1949              B.S. Ursinus College

  1953              M.D. University of Pennsylvania

  1953-54         Internship (rotating). Geisinger Medical Center,Danville, PA

  1954-57         Resident in Psychiatry, Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, N.Y.

  1956-62         Psychoanalytic education, William A. White Psychoanalytic

                                    Institute, New York, N.Y.

 

Licensure and Certification

 

  1954              National Board of Medical Examiners

  1954              Pennsylvania State License

  1954              New York State License

  1957              California State License

  1960              American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Psychiatry)

  1962              Certificate in Psychoanalysis, William A. White Institute of

                                    Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

 

Current Clinical/Teaching Interests

 

  1) Psychoanalysis and long-term individual psychotherapy.

  2) Integration of the psychotherapies with biologic treatment.

  3) The understanding, and therapeutic use of, transference and countertrans-

       ference phenona in diverse clinical settings.

  4) Integration of advanced psychotherapeutic techniques with 12-step (AA)          

       approaches to alcoholism and other drug dependent populations.

  5) Problem solving, in the current managed care environment, in the areas of                 bureaucratization of care, responsibility and accountability in review pro-

       cesses, maintenance of confidentiality and quality of care, and outcome

       assessment.

 

 

 

 

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Willam F. Weber, M.D.

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Academic Appointments

 

  1957-59         Lecturer and Consultant, City College of New York Education

                              Clinic. A demonstration and training unit for qraduate students

                              in psychology and education.

  1957-61         Instructor in Psychiatry, Columbia University.

  1962-65         Faculty, William A. White Institute of Psychoanalysis.

  1963-65         Clinical Associate in Psychiatry, New York School of Psychiatry.

  1965-Pres.     Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral

                              Science.

                                    1965  Clinical Assistant Professor

                                    1971  Clinical Associate Professor

                                    1978  Clinical Professor

  1977-92         Associate Professor, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.

  1994-98         Supervisor & Personal Analyst, Psychoanalyic Institute of Northern

                              California

 

Hospital Appointments

 

  1957-61         Assistant Attending Psychiatrist, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical

                              Center, New York, N.Y. Special interest: consultation/liaison

                              with ulcerative colitis and metabolic disease clinics.

  1963-65         Director, Psychiatric Liaison Service, Maimonides Hospital,

                              Brooklyn, N.Y.

  1965-Pres.  Psychiatric Medical Staff, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford,CA.

  1993-1998     Director, Individual Psychotherapy Clinic, Stanford University

                              Department of Psychiatry, Stanford, CA.

 

Other Professional Activities

  1955-57         Senior Psychiatrist, Rockland County Center for Mental Health,

                              Monsey, N.Y., a publicly supported community mental health

                              center.

  1959-64         Consultant, Jennie Clarkson Home for Girls, a residential treatment

                              center.

  1968-71         Peninsula Crisis Intervention Center (Damien House), a community

                              supported drop-in and crisis intervention center for adolescents.

                                    Assistant Chairman, Board of Trustees

                                    Chairman, Policy Committee

                                    Chairman, Professional Advisory Committee

  1970              Moderator, Neighborhood Health Center weekend seminars.

                              Funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity.

  1970-73         Consultant, Palo Alto Unified School District.

 

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   Other Professional Activities (cont)

  1970-Pres.     Erich Lindemann Seminars

                              Participant 1970 to present

                              Founder  1970

                              Faculty Coordinator 1976-present

  1973              Graduate, Training Program In Human Sexual Function and

                              Dysfunction, Reproductive Biology Research Foundation

                              (Masters and Johnson) St. Louis, Missouri.

  1975-85         Resident Fellow, Stanford University Residential Education

                              Program. Resident facilitator of the intellectual, social and emo-

                              tional growth of 90 undergraduates.

  1983              Consultant, Bard College Feasibility Study on the development  of a

                              retirement community integrated with the College campus.

 

Committee Assignments

At Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical School and

                        Stanford University Hospital.

   Psychiatry Curriculum Revision 1972-73

   Ad Hoc Committee to Redefine the Role of Clinical Faculty in the Department

                         of Psychiatry 1972-73

   Clinical Faculty Committee (Appointments and Promotions) 1974-76; 1981-84                           76 & 1981-84

   Residency Education Committee

                        Chair 1974-76; 1981-83

                        Member 1983-84; 1993-Present

   Curriculum Committee

                        Member 1975-77; 1988-Present

                        Chair 1982-85

   Chair, Ad Hoc Committee of Psychiatric Medical Staff to "inquire into the           

             background and legal basis for the questions on the Stanford University

             Medical Staff application and reapplication forms" 1977-79

    Chair, Residency Supervision Committee 1977-79

    Chair, Ad Hoc Committee of Psychiatric Medical Staff to "inquire into the          

             background and legal basis for the questions on the Stanford University

             Medical Staff application and reapplication forms" 1977-79

    Chair, Residency Supervision Committee 1977-79

    Continuing Medical Education Committee 1977-79

    Departmental Policy Committee 1979-81; 1983-85

    Psychiatric Education Task Force 1987-88

    Steering Committee for Charter Inc./Psychiatry Department Joint Venture

            1988-89; various Ad Hoc Committees regarding this merger.

    Search Committee for the Department of Psychiatry Chairperson 1988-90

    Co-Chair, Volume/Payor Committee (constituted to help develop a business

            plan for the Department of Psychiatry).  1990-91

    Member of several Ad Hoc Committees, and participant in various meetings,

            concerned with the development of a community based mental health

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 Committee Assignments (cont.)    

At Pacific Graduate School of Psychology

   Faculty Council 1984-89

   Faculty Selection Committee 1987-90  

 

Teaching Experience

  1957-59         Lecturer, Course Director and Case Supervisor, City College of N.Y.

                              Diagnosis and treatment of behavior disordered and learning dis-

                              abled children age 3 to 18.

  1957-61         Supervisor and Interdisciplinary Case Supervisor, Columbia-

                              Presbyterian Medical Center.  Management of severe cases of

                              metabolic disease and ulcerative colitis.

  1962-65         Seminar Leader, W. A. White Institute.  Psychosomatic disorders;                                       also therapeutic use of interpersonal events in inpatient settings.

  1963-65         Lectures, Maimonides Hospital. Focus on consultation liaison issues

                              with patient groups and hospital staff in med/surg settings.

  1965-98         Supervision of psychiatric residents, medical students, and interns

                              in psychology, social work and marriage and family counseling

                              Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.

  1965-Pres.     Lecturer, Seminar Leader, Discussant. Wide range of subjects in di-

                              verse settings, for example; Professional Associations (regional

                              and national); Hospitals (regional); Stanford community includ-

                              ing Stanford Hospital, Counseling and Psychological Services,

                              HELP Center, Residential Education; public and private grade

                              and high schools; parent organizations; etc.

  1971-93         Countertransference Seminar. Nine month course for PGY IV psy-

                              chiatry residents. Psychiatry Dept. Stanford University.

  1992-95         The Initial Interview. Summer quarter to PGY II psychiarty                                           residents. Stanford Dept. of Psychiatry.

  1995-Pres.   Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Spring or Summer Quarter PGY II

                              or III. Stanford University Dept. of Psychiatry.

  1973-75         Consultant, Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, Stanford University

                              Hospital.

  1975-85         Supervisor, Clinical Case Seminar, Child Division, Dept. of

                              Psychiatry, Stanford.

  1981-84         Lecturer on Adolescent Development, Child Division, Stanford

                              Psychiatry Department.

  1983-84         Co-leader, observed group psychotherapy with the adult children

                              of alcoholics.

 

 

 

 

 

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Private Practice: Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis

 

  1956-59         Rockland Consultation Center, Nanuet, N.Y.

  1957-63         11 East 88th Street, New York, N.Y.

  1963-65         11 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.

  1965-67         801 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA

  1967-68         510 East 86th Street, New York, N.Y.

  1968-90         661 Live Oak Avenue, Menlo Park, CA

  1990-Pres.     350 Sharon Park Drive # C-23, Menlo Park, CA 94025

 

 

 

 

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Professional Organizations

 

  American Academy of Psychoanalysis

     Moderator at various meetings

     San Francisco Representative to Presidential Ad-Hoc Committee of 1970-71

     Newsletter Editorial Board 1970-71

  American Psychiatric Association - Life Fellow

  Clinical Faculty Association of the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford

     University

            Founder 1973

            Chairman, Governing Council 1979-81; 1983-85

            Member, Governing Council 1973-75; 1980-81

  Mid-Peninsula Psychiatric Association

            President 1971

  Northern California Psychiatric Society

  Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

  Physicians for Social Responsibility

            Member, Steering Committee 1982-84

            Chair, Local Chapter Fund Raising Committee 1982-84

  William A. White Psychoanalytic Society

 

 

 

 Modified 8/25/2002