Education
At The Lawrenceville School, he pursued an independent study focusing on the pathogenic influence of prevented mourning on the survivors of Nazi German concentration camps, for which he received the Sterling Morton Prize, 2nd Place in 1972.
Laurence Rickels received his B.A. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. While enrolled at Penn he spent a year abroad at the Free University of Berlin, which he extended by an additional semester at the end of which (in 1973) he passed the Berlin institution's entry examination for graduate study in German literature.
He earned his Ph.D. in German Literature at Princeton University in 1980.
In the 1990s Rickels earned a Masters in Clinical Psychology at Antioch University of Southern California and trained and interned as a psychotherapist in Santa Barbara under the supervision of psychoanalyst Lawton Smith.
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