Clemens Loew was born in Poland two years before World War II began. He survived the Holocaust in part by hiding his identity and then by hiding in a convent outside Warsaw. His mother and uncle survived, but the rest of his family was killed.

Following the war, he and his mother stayed in a displaced-person camp and then in Munich, waiting for visas. They arrived in America in 1949, when he was 11 years old, speaking Polish, German and Hebrew.

He was raised in Manhattan, where he attended public school.

After obtaining his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Iowa, he furthered his postgraduate training in New York City. He lives and practices in Manhattan, where he is a psychoanalyst, author and co-founder of the prominent Natio ...more