Robert C. Leslie taught pastoral psychology and counseling at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, from 1954-1982. A native of Concord, Massachusetts, he was educated at DePauw University (A.B.), Greencastle, Indiana; Boston University School of Theology (S.T.B.); and Boston University (Ph.D.). Dr. Leslie received an American Association of Theological Schools Fellowship for sabbatical study for the academic year 1960-1961 and studied at the university of Vienna. It was at this time that he studied with psychiatrist Viktor E. Frank. An ordained minister of the Methodist Church, he served as a pastor, chaplain in the U. S. Army, hospital chaplain, and instructor in psychology of religion at Boston University School of Theology.