Sabert Basescu ’48

Sabert Basescu ’48 died on May 26 in New York City where he’d spent his career. He completed his Dartmouth education after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then took his Ph.D. at Princeton and received his psychoanalytic training at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health. He was professor of the New York University postdoctoral program in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and one of the founders of the Westchester Center for Psychoanalysis. Sabe was regarded as an outstanding analyst and proponent of the integration of existentialism and phenomenology into psychoanalytic theory and practice. Existential themes served as a meeting place for a variety of approaches in his field where he was considered ahead of his times. Sabe was a tennis player, kayaker, and nature lover. He married actress Elinor, with whom he had children Claire, Neil, and Maria ’80 and seven grandchildren. Elinor died in 2001, and he married Stefanie Solow Glennon in 2003. Sabe was fond of Dartmouth and inspired the attendance of daughter Maria and granddaughter Sophie ’21. 


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