He was a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the director of the Center for Sociopsychological Research and Education at Boston State Hospital, and assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine.
[3] He died of a heart attack in Berlin in 1997, after addressing a conference in Vienna marking Reich's centennial.
His paternal great-grandparents, originally named Sharafsky, were Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire.
[6] Paul Roazen wrote in The Psychoanalytic Review, "Myron Sharaf's Fury on Earth is far and away the finest book both on Reich's work and his life.
It is a work of scholarship that may well, until the Reich Archives are finally opened, remain definitive on the subject.