Luba Kessler

Luba Kessler, M.D., is a psychiatrist and psychoanalist in private practice. Born in the post-Holocaust displacement in the Ural Mountains, she has lived and received her education in the Soviet Union, Poland, Italy, and the United States. That journey included essential lessons in history, geography, culture, art, and politics. Postgraduate training and faculty appointments followed, in psychiatry at Hillside Hospital in Long Island, and in psychoanalysis at NYU Psychoanalytic Institute (now the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, affiliated with NYU Medical School. She is editor of Issues in Education for The American Psychoanalyst of the American Psychoanalytic Association. [adapted from The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2017)]