NY Med College published the first two major textbooks in psychiatry. Harold and Helen Kaplan were supervising as were Sadok, and Arieti. Lothar Kalinowski lectured us weekly for the 2 years I was there. Louis Jolyon West taught as visiting professor and later as well at Stanford. I treated a famous celebrity author as one of my first patients on male inpatient unit. At Stanford I was taught by Hale Shirley in Child psychiatriy. Beatrix Hamburg was my supervisor and I conferred with David Hamburg later to become president of the Carnegie Foundation. I also was involved with Dement’s sleep team as a resident and supervised by his staff Gulevich and Vince Zarcone who was my ward chief. Later I worked with Heinz Lehmann in Montreal and returned to New York, NY, where I worked in Neurochemistry with Arnold Freedhof’s team as well as Dr. Gershon’s psychopharmacology group,
I have a long colorful New York background. I was involved with two mayors of NYC and was offered a a major position by the Mayor of NYC (Lindsay) at age 35. More recently I treated a member of the Mayor’s family(Dinkens) as NY City was about to provide funding for expansion of our clinic (1989-90) where I was medical director. I treated some celebrities and/or their families. I met notable political people in NYC. We had a reception for Zbigniew Bryzinski formerly President Carter’s Secretary of State and were to have met him in Washington to assist in helping fund our (NYC Lower East Side Slavic-serving) clinic. I worked in the ghettoes, with combat veterans, in the largest voluntary inpatient addiction facility in the US. I was always a Chief, never a staff psychiatrist. When I left NYC in 1983, I was offered Chief of Staff position at a University of Chicago V.A. hospital. I was offered 2 major positions at Brown university by Dr. Nathan Epstein (Canadian). I was offered Chief Psychiatrist for NYC Department of Corrections where resided John Lennon’s killer, David Berkowitz, Jean Tarnower et al.
After my renal transplant I did return briefly to NYC as Medical Director of my own clinic. Defunding ended that. I was offered Associate Directorship of Psychiatry at Maimonides, the top hospital in Brooklyn before I left NYC but opted to return to Toronto for my (Alzheimer’s) mother who was still alive.
Back in Toronto I have become skilled in computer art and have enhanced my abilities as a psychiatric doodle artist. I have written with my son 3 books (unpublished so far since lost our Ben Johnson publisher). A weight loss article will be published as a book chapter.
I established my own company with my son re our Ben Johnson book, TOZART INC which I use for my art also. Seymour Tozman

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Neal Tozman, Dr Tozman's son was a top graduate in the biological sciences (specializing in Pharmacology) and was a highly regarded scholar in graduate studies in Molecular Biology. He was a published researcher at the outset, even as an undergraduate. His career was interrupted by events and he, as in the classical film "It's A Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart, gave up a brilliant career to help his dad. His father in fact, was in renal failure and in all likelihood would not have survived at all without his young son standing by him every minute as he battled an horrendous transplant renal salmonella infection. Neal as still a child did this and became and has become an inimical part of his father's innovative psychiatric behavioral practice with injured workers. This book has only come to fruition with his aid and computer expertise, and in fact Dr Tozman credits the success of his entire medical practice to his son's presence and expertise. Neal is the arm of his father and part of everything we accomplish.

Neal was born in New York City as an all American, July 4th child. He is Canadian and British by birth from his parents. As a child and later as a youth he attended The (elite) Dalton School in NYC. Neal's mother Ann, as a young woman, immigrated to Toronto from Britain, She originally taught school in Toronto, where she and Dr Tozman met. She was a NewYork model subsequent to events in the current book.

(Dr Tozman also credits his coordinator Eulalia (Lidia) Borges for standing by and still assisting for more than 20 years through shared adversity)

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