Daniel Burston

Born in Israel, and educated in Toronto, Daniel Burston started teaching at Duquesne in 1992, and chaired the department from 2006-2012. He is married, with two children.

Daniel Burston is the author of The Legacy of Erich Fromm (Harvard University Press, 1991), The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D.Laing (Harvard University Press, 1996), The Crucible of Experience (Harvard University Press, 2000) and Ego, Ethics and Evolution: Erik Erikson and the American Psyche (Jason Aronson, 2007), and the co-author, with Roger Frie of Psychotherapy as a Human Science (Duquesne University Press, 2006). His books have been reviewed in:

The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Boston Sunday Globe, The Boston Book Review, The New Republic, The Washington Times, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The Economist, The New Statesman, The New Scientist, The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, The Jerusalem Post, Library Journal, MacGill's Literary Journal, The Journal of the History of the Human Sciences, Radical Philosophy, The Australian Journal of Psychotherapy, The Canadian Journal of Psychology and The Canadian Journal of Sociology, and The Journal of Feminist Family Therapy.

Since 1986, Burston has been an invited and/or keynote speaker at St. Elizabeth's Hospital (NYC), The Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico City) , The Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis (Mexico City), The Erich Fromm Society (Tubingen/Munich), The William Alanson White Institute (NYC), The Philadelphia Association (London), The Washington School of Psychiatry (Washington, D.C.), The Royal College of Psychiatry (London), The Institute for the History of Psychiatry (Cornell University Medical Center, NYC), McMaster University (Hamilton, ON, ), Austen Riggs Treatment Center (Stockbridge, MA), Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (Pittsburgh, PA), The School of Psychotherapy, St. Vincent's Hospital, Dublin. He has also given papers at the annual conferences of Cheiron, The American Academy of Psychoanalysis, The British Psychological Society, The American Psychological Association, the Eastern Psychological Association and the International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education.

Daniel Burston's research interests reside primarily in the history of the mental health disciplines, with special emphasis on those areas where they dovetail with with philosophy, theology and politics.