at Hamburg due to the Nazis in 1933, eventually moving to the United States to accept a position at the University of Michigan. Later life For three years, Werner was funded by a grant at the University of Michigan. For a brief year, Werner accepted a position as a visiting professor at Harvard, but returned to Michigan the following year as a senior research psychologist at the Wayne County Training School. While at these two positions, Werner's work remained spread across several interests including: contour, metacontrast, binocular perception of depth, aesthetics, and developmental comparisons between normal functioning children and children with mental retardation. Following the death of his wife, he left the University for his first teaching position in the United States at Brooklyn College working on the effects of brain damage in 1942. Five years later, he left the University to take a position at Clark University in the Department of Psychology and Education. His research at the University, as many of his other positions, focused primarily on perception and language, and collaborated with his colleagues Seymour Wapner and Bernard Kaplan on several projects. This was the position he held for the longest, remaining at the University for 17 years. Awards 1955: Ford Foundation Grant of $5,000 1956: Elected to Clark chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Society 1956: Membership to American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1957 Awarded title of Ordentlicher Professor Emeritus at University of Hamburg 1960 Awarded title of Professor Emeritus at Clark University Distancing Distancing is a concept arising from the work of developmental psychologists Heinz Werner and Bernard Kaplan to describe the process of establishing a subject's individuality and identity as an essential phase in coming to terms with symbols, referential language and eventually full cognition and linguistic communication. Werner and Kaplan's work was later expanded and edified into more refined therapeutic practice by the pioneer in deaf-blind patient therapy, Dr. Jan Van Dijk, and later refined by the work of Dr. Susan Bruce. Selected works Werner, H. (1937). Process and achievement. Harvard Educational Review, 7, 353-368. Werner, H. (1940). Comparative psychology of mental development. NY: International Universities Press, Inc. Werner, H. (1944). Development of the visuo-motor performance on the marble board test in mentally retarded children. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 64, 269. Werner, H. (1946). The concept of rigidity. Psychological Review, 53, 43-52. Werner, H. (1957). The concept of development from a comparative and