My Four Lives: Memoirs of a Singing Psychoanalyst By Manfred Hecht

Manfred Hecht is a psychologist-psychoanalyst in private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in New York City, where he also is Senior Supervisor and Training Analyst at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, a past president of the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society. A native of Vienna, where he studied medicine, he survived the Holocaust and escaped to the United States. Following World War II service in War Department Intelligence, he established a career as a singer and actor in Broadway shows, concerts and opera, appearing in leading roles with the New York City Opera Company and as guest soloist with major symphony orchestras. Eventually he returned to his studies while serving as Cantor of the largest Reform Congregation in New Jersey and earned a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Columbia University. With his wife, Marie, he divides his week between the Berkshires and New York City.