His father, William Stapansky, was born in Chisinau, Bessarabia. Paul E. Stepansky is a Yale-trained historian ofideas specializing in the history of American medicine and psychiatry, Paul E. Stepansky, Ph.D. enjoyed a 30-year career as consul- ting editor and publisher for leading psychiatrists and psychoanalysts in America. Long sought out by physician-writers seeking high-level help developing book projects, Stepansky has worked collaboratively with senior writers infields asdiverse sa psychiatry, medical sociology, psychopharmacology, surgery, and architecture. Within psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Margaret Mahler and Heinz Kohut were among his private clients. From 1983 through 2006, he was Managing Director of The Analytic Press, Inc., which he built into a premier American imprint of mental health books and journals. Stepansky has taught advanced seminars in history of medicine, inclu- ding a seminar on "Women, Their Bodies, Their Health, and Their Doctors: America, 1850 to the Present", at Montclair State University. He retains an appoin- tment at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where he is interdisciplinary research faculty at the DeWitt Wallace Institute of the History of Psychiatry. In 2010 Stepansky launched Keynote Books to publish and distribute his sti- rring memoir of his father, William Stepansky, M.D., a remarkable GP of the postwar generation, and other general-interest works in medicine and society.