1943
Born in Dunedin, New Zealand to William Charles and Anne Agnes Buckley.
1966
Receives a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
1967
Becomes an intern at Dunedin Public Hospital.
1968
Becomes a resident in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, New York.
1970
Becomes a fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
1976
Becomes director of psychiatry out-patient services at Jacobi Medical Center in New York.
1980
Becomes an associate professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
1986
Serves as an editor of “Essential Papers on Object Relations.”
1987
Is promoted to full professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
1988
Authors “Essential Papers on Psychosis” for New York University Press.
1993
Becomes director of residency training in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
1996
Becomes a training and supervisor psychoanalyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York.
2010
Becomes a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
2016
Co-authors “The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice.”
2018
Becomes Professor Emeritus at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.