He recalls that every day of his college experience was "just remarkable and incredibly interesting."
"That sounds Pollyanna, but its not," he says.
He graduated summa cum laude in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in social relations, a concentration formed the year he arrived.
The social relations concentration, a combination of psychology, sociology and cultural anthropology, nurtured Federman's interest in psychoanalysis--an interest he had all but forgotten about until his recent high school reunion.
Paging through a copy of his old yearbook from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Federman was reminded that at the time he'd intended to become a psychiatrist.
In order to pursue that goal, he enrolled at Harvard Medical School, continuing his Harvard education, which he jokingly refers to as "Preparation H."
Federman graduated magna cum laude from the medical school in 1953. He spent the next two years completing his residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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