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Adventure and Destiny

出版	Schreiber Publishing, Incorporated, 1999
主題	Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalBiography & Autobiography / Medical (incl. Patients)History / Europe / GeneralHistory / Modern / General
ISBN	08840020719780884002079
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=8CYeAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋"When World War II broke out, Leon Tec was a medical student in Vilna. In the days of eastern Europe's quota system for Jews, he had the rare privilege of being one of only eight Jewish students permitted to attend the Stefan Batory Medical School. As the Nazi's tightened their hold on eastern Europe, he escaped via Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, and Greece to reach Israel, then under the British mandate. After a brief period as a manual laborer, he was able to continue his medical studies at St. Joseph's University in Beiruit, finally receiving his M.D. in 1944. During Israel's War of Independence, he served as a medical officer on several fronts. After the war he continued building up his private medical practice in Tel Aviv, but a yearing to be a psychiatrist set him on the road again. This time to New York's Bellevue Hospital where he completed his training and taught as a faculty member for six years. For much of his distinguished career he was medical director of the Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center in Connecticut. In this exciting tale of escape from wartorn Europe, the author often looks at his own life with a psychiatrist's eye as he analyzes his reactions to numerous situations, first as a child, then as a teenager and young adult. He describes the difficulties of growing up with parents whose marriage was severely strained, the difficulties of his relationship with his sister, his shyness in his relationships with girls. As a mature adult in medical school and the Israeli army, he begins to apply his insights to practical ends in diagnosing and treating patients, and we see a psychiatrist evolving. The journey from Baranowicz to New York is not just a geographical one, it is also a psychological one."--Publisher's description.