 degree from UCLA School of Law, Order of the Coif, in December 1972 and subsequently was admitted to the California State Bar in 1974.He also received a Ph.D. in Psychoanalysis in May 1984 from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Monmouth College (Illinois) in May 1990.He is licensed as a Research Psychoanalyst with the California Board of Medical Quality Assurance, since 1977.