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Arthur Valenstein, 98; curiosity led to career in psychotherapy

By Bryan Marquard

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 09, 2012

Longtime Cambridge psychoanalyst Dr. Arthur F. Valenstein was analyzed by Anna Freud, the youngest child of Sigmund Freud, and was among the few remaining direct links to that era of psychoanalysis. “As a teacher, as a really thoughtful writer, as a kind of representative of an earlier period of psychoanalysis, he was a major figure and I think he influenced a lot of his students, a lot of his supervisees,’’ said Dr. Malkah Notman, a Brookline psychoanalyst.

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