Peter B. Neubauer

Dr. Peter Neubauer (born July 5 1913 - died February 15, 2008) was a noted child psychiatrist and author of a controversial study of adoptive twins (five sets) and triplets (one set) who were deliberately separated at birth for the purposes of the study. He served on the board of the Sigmund Freud Archives and was a former director of the Child Development Center of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services in Manhattan.

According to NPR, at the conclusion of the study in 1980, Dr. Neubauer feared that public opinion would be against the study and declined to publish it. The records of the study are sealed at the Yale University Library until 2066. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7152762.stm BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Twins reunited, after 35 years apart:By Jane Beresford - Radio 4's Taking a Stand (31 December 2007, 02:33 GMT)] ]

In 2004 two twins in the study, Elyse Schein and Paula Bernstein, learned of each other's existence and met, aged 35. They began to write a joint memoir, "Identical Strangers", and subsequently met with Neubauer in an eventually fruitless search for answers as to what was done to them. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7152762.stm BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Twins reunited, after 35 years apart:By Jane Beresford - Radio 4's Taking a Stand (31 December 2007, 02:33 GMT)] ] The set of triplets and two other sets of twins in the study have also been reunited, but it is not known if the remaining two sets of twins have.

Neubauer died on February 15, 2008 at the age of 94. [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/nyregion/03neubauer.html New York Times:Peter B. Neubauer, 94, Noted Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead - By JEREMY PEARCE Published: March 3, 2008] ]

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