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Obituary

October 10, 2014

Forsyth . . . Dr. Louis S. Berger passed away peacefully on Sunday August 17, 2014, after a brief illness. The family will greet friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 pm on Wednesday, August 20, 2014, at Monroe County Memorial Chapel.  Memorial services will be held at a later date.

Dr. Berger was born October 12, 1927, in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Refugees from the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, his family settled in New York when he was a young child.  A graduate of Princeton University, he earned a Master of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master of Science degree in physics from Trinity University, and Doctor of Philosophy degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Berger had brilliant careers in engineering, music, and psychology. He played beautiful music as a cellist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, provided healing therapy and leadership as a clinical psychologist in San Antonio, Texas, and published numerous intriguing articles and books on subjects ranging from mathematics to psychology to philosophy. He spent his last years reading and writing radical philosophical works, listening to music, researching diet and fitness, debating politics, playing bridge, loving his wife, and relishing the quietness in rural Monroe County, Georgia. His last book will be published posthumously.

Survivors include his wife Andrea Remick Berger of Forsyth, step-son Matt Millwood of Forsyth, niece Dr. Leslie Pepitone of West Chester, Pennsylvania, niece Dr. Jessica Pepitone of Providence, Rhode Island, and niece Ms. Andrea Louise Pepitone of Portland, Oregon.

The family requests no flowers. Instead, please make donations to Pine Pointe Hospice, 6261 Peake Road, Macon, GA.
Monroe County Memorial Chapel has charge of arrangements.

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Louis' rich professional career spans the fields of electrical engineering (B.S., Princeton), music (M.M., University of Texas), physics (M.S., Trinity University), and clinical psychology (Ph.D., University of Tennessee). He was a cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and returned to technical work as a Senior Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, initiating and conducting research in a broad variety of subject areas ranging from electromagnetic fields to speech perception in noisy environments. Ultimately he followed a long-standing, intense interest in psychoanalytically oriented therapy, returning to graduate school and completing training in psychology. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the Texas Research Institute of Mental Sciences in the Houston Medical Center he began a long career as a therapist, academician, and consultant that includes an appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Louisville School of Medicine. He was in private practice until he returned to Southwest Research Institute in 1990 to serve in the newly established position of Staff Psychologist.

Louis' Published Books

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