Paul Roazen was a political scientist who became a preeminent historian of psychoanalysis. Roazen received his A.B. at Harvard University in 1958. He then studied at the University of Chicago and Magdalen College, Oxford, before returning to Harvard for his PhD dissertation, which bore on Freud's political and social thought. After teaching at Harvard as an Assistant Professor in Government, he accepted an appointment in Social and Political Science at York University in Toronto in 1971, where he taught until his early retirement in 1995. In 1965 Roazen began to interview surviving friends, relatives, colleagues and patients of Sigmund Freud. His first 'big' book, Freud and his followers, was based on hundreds of hours of material. This was a path-breaking and influential work, which remains a basic reference for historians of psychoanalysis today. Roazen was the first non-psychoanalyst whom Anna Freud allowed to access the archives of the British Psychoanalytical Institute. He was able to see the huge material Ernest Jones had used to write his biography of Freud. In 1993, Roazen became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. 

August 14th, 1936 in Boston  /  Died:   Nov 3rd, 2005