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About Bernard Bail, M.D.
DR. BERNARD BAIL is a physician, a psychoanalyst and
a training analyst who lives and practices in Beverly Hills, California.
He has worked with both patients and analysts for over fifty years. Dr.
Bail is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and
the American Psychoanalytic Association where he chairs the ongoing discussion
group “Infant Mental Life and the Dream in Psychoanalysis.” Through
his intensive work in the unconscious via the dream, Dr. Bail developed
a new paradigm for psychoanalysis centered at the beginning of human
life.
For his military service during World War II, Dr.
Bail received the Distinguished Service Cross, three Distinguished Flying
Crosses, five Air Medals, five Battle Stars in the European Theater of
Operations, a Purple Heart, a Prisoner of War Medal, and the 44th Bomb
Group Presidential Citation. In addition, the French government awarded
Dr. Bail the French Legion of Honor, the highest military honor bestowed
by France.
Dr. Bail’s prisoner of war experience
in Nazi Germany, followed by his quest to become a physician and a
psychoanalyst, is described in his book, Irmgard’s Flute,
A Memoir.
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