Life
Searles was born in upstate New York. He attended Cornell University and Harvard Medical School before joining the US armed services in World War II. After the war he continued his psychiatric training at the Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, MD from 1949-1951, then at the Veterans Administration Mental Hygiene Clinic in Washington, DC from 1951-1952. In 1949 he started work at the luxurious private mental hospital Chestnut Lodge, Maryland where he stayed for the next fifteen years. His colleagues included Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, to whose philosophy of treatment he acknowledged his personal debt.
Searles and his wife Sylvia, retired to Davis, California. They have two sons and a daughter. Their daughter is actress Sandra Dickinson.
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