Bernard A. Stotsky

Bernard Stotsky was born April 8, 1926 in New York City to Bessie and George Stotsky, immigrants from Russia. He interrupted his college education to serve in WWII in the South Pacific. Afterwards, he completed an undergraduate degree at the City College of New York, a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan, and a medical degree, specializing in psychiatry, at Western Reserve University. He was a professor of psychology at Boston State College and the University of Massachusetts-Boston and was a professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington, and was affiliated with Duke, Tufts, and Boston Universities, and was a fellow at Harvard University. He was a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association and was a senior fellow at the Massachusetts Medical Society. He consulted with the National Institute of Mental Health, among others, and earned a sustained supporter achievement award. He was also a consulting psychiatrist at the Northeastern University health clinic and was on the staff at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Brighton for 40 years, where he was director of psychiatric resident training. He published 150 peer reviewed articles, 12 monographs, and 6 books.

Loving father of Sharon Stotsky-Hilman of Andover, Ellen and Yitzhak Shnidman of Englewood, NJ, Janet Stotsky of Bethesda, MD, Steven and Susan Stotsky of Easton, and Warren and Karen Stotsky of Waban. Adored grandfather of Bruce, Amy, Emily, Melanie, Ariel, Ronen, Sarah, Jay, Eric, Jared, Evan, and Rebecca. Dear brother of the late Harold Starr. Former husband of Sandra (Gotshalk) Stotsky.

Services at the Levine Chapels, 470 Harvard St., Brookline on Friday, November 3 at 10:30am. Burial will be private.

Memorial observance Saturday evening from 7pm-9pm and Sunday from 12pm-7pm at the home of Warren and Karen Stotsky, Waban.

In lieu of flowers, remembrances may be made to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024 or the WWII Memorial, P.O. Box 71, Holbrook, NY, 11741.