Barry Leonard Siegel

Barry Leonard Siegel, M.D. (March 19, 1932-November 10, 2025)

Barry loved to tell jokes, he loved listening to opera, he loved sitting on the oceanside deck at Dix Point in Maine, he loved becoming proficient in surgery, psychoanalysis, woodworking, and gardening, but most of all he loved his family. He loved his daughters from the moment they were born and loved helping them grow up and become accomplished adults. He loved getting to know his grandkids through conversation, archery lessons, and spending time together. He loved his sister, Lenore, and her family. He loved his life with his second wife, Jan Richter, on their farm in Madison, Virginia.

Graduating from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, Barry won a New York State Regents Scholarship and attended the University of Rochester from 1949 to 1952. He attended the University of Chicago School of Medicine from 1952 to 1956. He had a year of surgical residency at Cornell Hospital in Manhattan and was then drafted into the United States Army Medical Corps in 1957. He served in Stuttgart, Germany for two years, where he trained and worked as a psychiatrist because the army “had too many surgeons.”

Back in the United States, Barry completed a residency in psychiatry at the University of Michigan, acquired psychoanalytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and became the youngest Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst in the history of the Institute.

Dr. Siegel practiced psychoanalysis in Ann Arbor, Michigan until 1994, when he retired to Washington, D.C., and then to Madison, Virginia, where he became a skilled woodworker and vegetable farmer.

Dr. Siegel was predeceased by his younger sister, Lenore Weiss (1935-2024). He leaves behind two daughters from his first marriage (Stephanie and Lisa Siegel), seven grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. In addition he leaves behind his wife, Janis Richter, two stepchildren, and five step-grandchildren.