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                  <text>March 19, 1962
Dr. Seymour

Perlin

Department of Psychiatry

Montefiore Hospital
&amp; Bainbridge Ave.

E. Gun Hill Rd.
Bronx, N.Y.
Deer 8y:

pleased to write this letter on behalf of
I have known during the past three
During this time I have
Hillside
Hospital.
at
years
been his supervisor in research duﬁ.ng his residency;
and a co—worker in the somatic therapy program of the
I

am

Dr. Lefkowits, whom

hospital.

Dr. Lefkowits is s sincere, thorough, and responsible
As a resident he stood above his class in his

worker.

research interests and his willingness to accept respona
sibility. As a consequence of his excellent record, he
was promoted to the position of junior psychiatrist and
assigned new residents for supervision as soon as his
resident period was ended.
During that period he also undertook a study of the
milieu influences on selection of treatment at our hospital.
He showed considerable ingenuity in this study, and the
published in the JOnrnal of the Hillside
report was recently
He
was
an active participant in the research
also
Hospital.
seminars of the hospital.
Lest fall, this Department instituted e psychophernecologic after-care clinic. Dr. Lefkowits was put in charge,
and his
excellent ﬁudgnent in the management of the
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decision to leave Hillside.
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capable young descriptive
training and a good grasp of
somatic therapies. He gets along well with patients
and
with his peers. He is methodical, occasionally cver~
meticulous, serious, and friendly. I have no hesitation
in recommending him to you for a
within his
abilities ~ for he will serve the position
institution well.

psychiatrist.

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has good

Sincerely yours,
upsgp

Max

Fink,

M.D.

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