Abraham Myerson

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Abraham Myerson (born November 23, 1881 in Jonava ; † September 3, 1948 ) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist of Lithuanian-Jewish origin ( Litwak ).

Life

When he was five years old, he emigrated from Lithuania to the USA. In 1908 he graduated from the Tufts Medical School . From 1911 to 1912 he did an internship at the Alexian Brothers Hospital in St. Louis and from 1912 to 1913 at the Psychopathology Hospital in Boston . From 1913 he worked as a director at Trenton Hospital and from 1917 at Boston Hospital. From 1934 to 1945 he was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University .

Works (selection)

  • Social psychology. Prentice-Hall, 1934
  • The terrible Jews. The Jewish Advocate Pub. Co., 1922
  • The psychology of mental disorders. The Macmillan Company, 1927
  • When life loses its zest. Little, Brown, 1925
  • The Nervous Housewife
  • Foundations of Personality
  • Inheritance of Mental Diseases
  • When Life Loses Its Zest
  • Psychology of Mental Disorders
  • Eugenical Sterilization

literature

  • Andrew R. Heinze: Jews and the American soul: human nature in the twentieth century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 116-118. ISBN 0-691-11755-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Myerson, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonava
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1948