Theodore Isaac Rubin

Theodore Rubin, best known as the author of "Lisa and David", the novella on which the acclaimed 1962 film "David and Lisa" was based, was a psychiatrist with a private practice in Manhattan who decided to write fiction based on his experience as an analyst. His first book, the novella "Jordi ," was about a troubled boy. After "Lisa and David," he went on to write another 30 volumes, a column in the popular magazine Ladies' Home Journal, and often appeared on television to talk about mental health therapy. Rubin had graduated from Far Rockaway High School in Queens, received a degree in 1946 from Brooklyn College, served in the Navy and later received a medical degree from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Before finishing a specialty in psychiatry at Brooklyn's Downstate Medical School, he had done his residency at the Los Angeles V.A. Hospital. He continued while practicing to train at the American Institute of Psychoanalysis which had been founded by a mentor, Karen Horney.