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(1925-2022) Psychiatrist, author. Willard Gaylin was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and died in Valhalla, New York.

Full Name

Willard Gaylin

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Mr. Gaylin was a professor of psychiatry and law at Columbia Law School.

1925

BIRTH

Willard Marvin Gaylin was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 23, 1925.

1950

OTHER

Mr. Gaylin was a psychiatric resident at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx in the 1950s.

1956

OTHER

Mr. Gaylin received his certificate in psychoanalysis from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in 1956.

1964

RESIDENCE

Mr. Gaylin lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.

1969

OTHER

Dr. Gaylin and Daniel Callahan founded the Hastings Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, in 1969.

1976

LITWORK

Caring
Knopf: distributed by Random House; 1st edition (January 1, 1976)
0394497856 / 978-0394497853
Nonfiction.

1978

LITWORK

Doing Good: The Limits Of Benevolence
Pantheon Books
0394411331 / 978-0394411330
Nonfiction written with Steven Marcus, Ira Glasser, and David Rothman.

1979

LITWORK

Feelings : Our Vital Signs
Harper & Row; 1st edition (January 1, 1979)
0060114592 / 978-0060114596
Nonfiction.

1982

LITWORK

The Killing of Bonnie Garland: A Question of Justice
Simon & Schuster (May 28, 1982)
0671449605 / 978-0671449605
Nonfiction.

1984

LITWORK

Feeling Good and Doing Better: Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
Humana
089603061X / 978-0896030619
Nonfiction. Edited and contributed to by Dr. Gaylin, Dr. Thomas H. Murray, and Dr. Ruth Macklin.

1984

LITWORK

Rage Within: Anger in Modern Life
Simon & Schuster; First Edition (January 1, 1984)
0671421301 / 978-0671421304
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

Adam and Eve and Pinocchio
Viking; 1st edition (April 20, 1990)
0670826014 / 978-0670826018
Nonfiction.

1996

LITWORK

The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society
Free Press; 1st edition (May 1, 1996)
0684827840 / 978-0684827841
Nonfiction written with Bruce Jennings.

2000

LITWORK

Talk Is Not Enough: How Psychotherapy Really Works
Little, Brown and Company (March 1, 2000)
0316303089 / 978-0316303088
Nonfiction.

2003

LITWORK

Hatred: The Psychological Descent Into Violence
PublicAffairs; 1st edition (April 16, 2003)
1586481665 / 978-1586481667
Nonfiction.

2022

DEATH

Willard Gaylin died in Valhalla, New York, on December 30, 2022.

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