It is with great sadness that I inform you that Dr. Albert Mason died unexpectedly in hospital after a brief illness on Wednesday, May 16, 2018.
Read Dr. Mason’s obituary from the LA Times
Dr. Mason has been one of the pillars of our world-wide psychoanalytic community. He was a tireless teacher, supervisor, analyst and mentor to hundreds in our field, specializing particularly in Kleinian thought. He helped bring British Object Relations to Los Angeles, and helped to establish the Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC). He also helped to extend British Object Relations from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and beyond. He was a sought-after teacher; he wrote numerous articles and has two books awaiting publication. His vigor and insight was palpable and clear, making this sudden loss especially difficult to digest. We will miss him dearly and will honor his memory always.
The PCC is pleased to publish, for the first time, a video of a lecture that Dr. Mason delivered in London in December 2017. The video was recorded in Los Angeles, in anticipation of the University College London’s “Anxiety, Dread, and Fear Conference”, where Dr. Mason was able to attend in person. Vital and insightful at age 92, his impact on psychoanalysis and his psychoanalytic community will live on.
Leigh Tobias, Ph.D., FIPA
President, PCC
The Internal World of Terror with Albert Mason from The Psychoanalytic Center of CA on Vimeo.