Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Theodore Isaac Rubin (born April 11, 1923) is an American psychiatrist and author. He lives in New York City. Rubin is a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Karen Horney Institute for PSychoanalysis.
He is a long-time contributing columnist to the Ladies Home Journal, and the author of more than twenty-five works of fiction and nonfiction. In 1962, director Frank Perry made the acclaimed film David and Lisa from Rubin's fact-based story "Lisa and David". The film was remade by entertainer Oprah Winfrey in 1998. His book SHRINK, The Diary of a Spychiatrist, written in the times of his residences in different Psychiatric Hospitals in the West Coast of the United States until his decision to move to New York, is a wonderful piece of work, written with a humor, sensitivity and honesty, that few professionals of the time, showed .
