Dr. Dorian Feigenbaum, psychoanalyst and former medical director of the Hospital for Mental Diseases in Palestine, died yesterday at his home of pneumonia at the age of 49. He was a friend and pupil of Dr. Sigmund Freud.
A specialist on paranoia, he practiced in Austria, Switzerland and Palestine. While in the Holy Land he was consultant to the Government on criminal lunacy. After coming here he founded the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, which he had edited ever since.
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