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T D W W I HE E ITT ALLACE NSTITUTEFORTHE H P ISTORYOF SYCHIATRY A R F NNUAL EPORT TO THE RIENDS J 1, 2012 - J 30, 2013 ULY UNE Oskar Diethelm Library Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry Eric T. Carlson Memorial Grand Rounds Department of Psychiatry Weill Cornell Medical College 525 East 68th Street, Box 140 New York, New York 10065-4897 Phone: (212) 746-3727 Facsimile: (212)746-8886 http://www.cornellpsychiatry.org/history Report created by Megan J. Wolff for the DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Psychiatry. September 2013. All rights reserved. The front cover image is taken from the fly leaf of the ODL’s new copy of Essai sur l’origine des connaissances humaines by Étienne Bonnot Condillac. The back cover image is taken from: Cerebri anatome: Cui Accessit Nervorum Descriptio et Usus, 1664 by Thomas Willis. Printed by CUMC Duplicating, New York, New York. 2 T C ABLE OF ONTENTS Director’s Report 5 Librarian’s Report 6 DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry: A History 9 Article: New Acquisitions at the Oskar Diethelm Library 13 Eric T. Carlson Grand Rounds 24 Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar: Seminar Program Director’s Report 27 Seminar Presentations, 2012-2013 28 Issues in Mental Health Policy Lecture Series 30 Working Groups Psychoanalysis and the Arts 31 History of Psychoanalysis 32 Research Faculty & Alumni Staff & Affiliated Faculty 33 Faculty News 34 Alumni News 41 Benjamin Rush Scholars Program 43 Research Faculty Publications 46 Friends of the Institute for the History of Psychiatry 50 Annual Report Committee 54 3 4 D ’ R IRECTOR S EPORT One of the many blessings of this Institute comes from its immersion in the swirl and tumult of the very field we study. Housed in a department of psychiatry and medical school, we have never been shielded from the realities that face doctors and patients, researchers and therapists, legislators and tax payers. When I step forth from the delicious calm of the Oskar Diethelm Library, psychiatry, psychology, and medicine await me in all their ragged glory. One of the risks for those of us who have a foot in the clinic is to not let the prejudices and preconceptions of the present distort our attempts to grapple with the past. The opposite problem also exists, as some scholars grow disengaged from the struggles of their time. Having learned from Ted Carlson and the early members of this community, I have sought to maintain a balance between these competing poles both for myself and the Institute. This past year we initiated a pilot program to help with that aspect of our mission. The Institute has always supported a wide array of work, including research that pertains to mental health policy. My belief has been that good policy emerges from a deep understanding of what has been. This past year, the constant appearance of front page news related to psychiatry brought to my attention a need for more engagement between academic scholars and legislators focused on contemporary mental health concerns. For example, since the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, profound questions have been raised about mental illness, violence, privacy, and access to treatment. To address these questions and many others, we have inaugurated a Mental Health Policy lectures series. We hope to bring together interested scholars and begin to raise awareness of the many issues that we might consider, issues with deep histories that still make news today. I am delighted to work with Megan Wolff, Rosemary Stevens, and Richard Friedman on this new endeavor. Marisa Shaari has been a wonderful steward of the Diethelm collection, as you will see from this report. I must add my thanks to Dr. Robert Michels, our long time member and friend, whose extraordinary donation made it possible to secure extremely rare and important additions to the library, ones that were central to both the founding of neuroscience and psychology. Enjoy this Annual Report and please support the Institute as we seek to expand our mission. George Makari M.D. 5 O D L SKAR IETHELM IBRARY LIBRARIAN’S REPORT The Oskar Diethelm Library enjoyed a year of productivity and progress in 2012-2013. Increasing digital access to our materials remained the focus of many projects in the Library and a number of advancements were made in this area. Several notable donations were given to the library this year, expanding our already rich and varied collections. Researchers again took advantage of our remarkable resources to further explore various subjects in the history of psychiatry. Donations and Acquisitions The Library was very fortunate to receive funds from member Robert Michels, MD, to acquire several rare and valuable books seminal to the history of psychiatry and neurology. A complete write-up of this donation including the specific titles of the books purchased is included on page thirteen. We hope other members will consider similar contributions to the library. Without Dr. Michels’ support, we would not have been able to add these extraordinary works to the Library’s collection. Peter Wilson, MD, made a notable donation to the library this year as well. Dr. Wilson donated all the books from his office here at Weill Cornell Medical College. Included in the donation were some books that were entirely new to the collection, and which have helped to expand the scope of our holdings. Other donations were made by Doris Nagel, MD, William Frosch, MD, and Theodore Shapiro, MD. We are tremendously thankful to all our donors for their continued support and interest in the Library. In addition to the books that were added by donation, the Library continued to acquire newly published works in the history of psychiatry, thanks to the support of Friends like you. Over 50 new books were added to our catalog this year. Special Projects The Oskar Diethelm Library launched a new online exhibit: Good for What Ails You? Patent Medicines and Advertising Trade Cards. This exhibit was co-curated by our spring and summer 2012 library intern, Allison Cloyd, from the Pratt Institute Library Science graduate program. The exhibit developed out of a project to digitize a collection of visually compelling patent medicine advertising trade cards found in the Library. 6 It delves into the history of patent medicines and their claims to cure all kinds of illnesses from nervous disorders, to headaches, to “female” complaints. Patent medicine companies used advertising cards to promote these products. The exhibit can be viewed on our website under the link titled “Online Exhibits.” We hope you will visit it if you haven’t already. The online exhibit has been supplemented with a physical exhibit of some of the trade cards in the Oskar Diethelm Library, so please be sure to stop in and see that as well. Archives and Manuscripts The Library’s finding aids for archival collections are now a part of the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium, a discovery tool providing keyword search services across a catalog of descriptions of primary source materials found in special collections and archives throughout the United States. The Library has recently joined the National Library of Medicine’s Directory of the History of Medicine Collections. This online database provides research, reference, and interlibrary loan services to scholars interested in the history of the health sciences. It is keyword searchable, with the ability to refine search results by categories such as organization type, state/province, country, collection subject strengths and organization name. Work continues on digitizing the existing finding aids for our archival collections. As each finding aid is digitized and proofed, it will be uploaded to our website for researcher access. Library Use As always, a number of scholars, students, and residents used our library facilities for research this year. Researchers requested the papers of David Levy, Thomas Salmon, D.W. Winnicott, Clifford Beers, and mesmerism practitioner Jonathan Webster, among others. The Papers of the American Psychoanalytic Association remains one of our more heavily used collections. We hosted visitors from such far flung locales as Brazil, Australia, and the UK, while also assisting researchers closer to home. Marisa Shaari, M.L.I.S. Special Collections Librarian 7 8 T D W W I HE E ITT ALLACE NSTITUTE H P FOR THE ISTORY OF SYCHIATRY A HISTORY The DeWitt Wallace Institute for the History of Psychiatry is an inter-disciplinary research unit whose objective is to carry out, encourage, and advise scholarship in a broad range of historical topics relevant to the present day theory and practice of psychiatry. Situated in the Department of Psychiatry of Weill Cornell Medical College (New York Presbyterian Hospital), the Institute serves as a meeting ground for historically oriented scholars from many disciplines. Its biweekly Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar is attended by psychiatrists, psychologists, historians, students, and others, who also convene for working group meetings on the history of psychoanalysis and other topics. The Institute is the home of the Oskar Diethelm Library, a rich collection of books, manuscripts, images, and esoterica that serves as an important resource for the study of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and related fields. The foundation of the Institute was laid in 1936, when Dr. Oskar Diethelm, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the recently opened Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, began assembling books and journals important to the history of psychiatry, convinced as he was of their value to clinicians. Stimulated by this growing resource, Dr. Eric T. Carlson formally launched the History of Psychiatry Section (as the Institute was originally known) in 1958, when he received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to pursue research into the history of American psychiatry. At the same time, Dr. Diethelm appointed him to a newly created position as Director of the Section. Under the leadership of Dr. Carlson, the activities and collections of the History Section steadily expanded to serve a wide range of interests, from the education of medical students and residents to the exchange of ideas among a wide multidisciplinary group. In the early 1960s, Dr. Carlson instituted a biweekly research seminar, which in 1993 was renamed the Richardson Research Seminar in honor of the Richardsons’ generous support. When Dr. Diethelm retired in 1962, the Section’s rare books library was named in his honor. The Oskar Diethelm Library now contains 9