David H. Rosen
American psychiatrist (1945–2024)
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ToursExplore Lably’s 3D toursAt the time of his death, he lived in Eugene, Oregon, and was a member of the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts and an Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at Oregon Health & Science University. His research interests include analytical psychology, psychology of religion, psychology of humor, positive psychology, depression, suicidology, children's literature, social medicine and psychiatry; epidemiology, healing, ethics, peace, creativity, and the psychosocial, psychiatric, and human aspects of medicine.
Background
Rosen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with an individual major in Psychological-Biological Sciences, and then went to University of Missouri School of Medicine. He did his internship at the University of California Service at San Francisco General Hospital. and his psychiatric residency at the Langley Porter Institute at the University of California Medical Center.
He was appointed first lecturer and then assistant professor of psychiatry at the UCSF Medical Center. He then moved at the request of Dr. George Engel to the University of Rochester Medical Center as associate professor of Psychiatry and Medicine. Following that, he spent 25 years as the McMillan Professor of Analytical Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry, and Professor of Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M University.
Rosen did post-graduate training in Analytical Psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, California and became certified as a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He was later a member of the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts.
Rosen died in Eugene, Oregon on May 7, 2024, at the age of 79.
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Professional work
Rosen is best known for his research involving interviews of survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge and the therapeutic approach of egocide & transformation in treating suicidally depressed individuals (see "Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul through Creativity").
He edited a book, Less is More: A Collection of Ten-Minute Plays, which contains two plays of his own: "Leap for Life" and "Thanatos Calling." The first concerns survivors of jumps off the Golden Gate Bridge, and the other is about an elderly suicidal woman.
While at UCSF, Rosen received the Henry F. Albronda Memorial Award, the Academic Senate's Award for Distinction in Teaching, the Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was selected to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar for health professionals. He was also awarded the Outstanding Young Physician Award by the Medical Alumni Organization (University of Missouri), and was elected to Fellowship in the American Psychiatric Association. In 2003, he was designated Distinguished Fellow in the American Psychiatric Association and was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. He was the recipient of the Psychiatric Excellence Award by the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians in 2004. Rosen was named the Distinguished Life Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association in 2006. He and his co-authors received the Article-of-the-Year Award by AcademyHealth for their paper “Two-minute mental health care for elderly patients: Inside primary care visits." Rosen was the recipient of a Glasscock Center for Humanities Research Stipendiary Fellowship at Texas A&M for 2009–2010. He retired from Texas A&M in 2011 and was later affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University.
Artwork
Rosen was a painter using watercolor and acrylic.