Joseph Wilder

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Joseph Wilder (born February 13, 1895 in Drohobycz ( Eastern Galicia ), † October 31, 1976 in Hartford, Connecticut , USA) was an Austrian-American neurologist and psychiatrist.

Life

After completing his medical studies at the University of Vienna in June 1919, internist training took place at the Vienna General Hospital with Friedrich Kovacs and Jakob Pál and initial psychiatric training with Emil Mattauschek. For many years Wilder was employed at the Rothschild Foundation “Maria-Theresien-Schlössel Psychiatric Hospital” with the teacher Emil Redlich (1866–1930), whom he particularly admired, and after his death in June 1930 he was the deputy director of this institution. In 1931, Wilder moved to Otto Pötzl as a clinical assistant at the Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic, before finally being appointed Medical Director of the other Rothschild Foundation or the "Rosenhügel mental hospital". Proposed for lectureship in 1933 and 1936, Wilder withdrew his application, which was never dealt with by the Ministry of Education. In June 1938 Joseph Wilder had to leave Vienna and emigrated to the USA. With unbroken intellectual and creative power, he was able to continue his scientific career in New York at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and at the New York Medical College; More than 90 of his publications attest to this. He also worked as a neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist at various hospitals such as B. at Goldwater Memorial Hospital as well as very successfully in his practice.

Act

Wilder's scientific work comprises more than 172 publications, including 15 books or book chapters and 157 original papers. To be emphasized are z. Sometimes also monographic presentations on topics such as "tic problem", "narcolepsy", "headache", "sugar deficiency disease", vascular crises in cerebral angiospasms "and" crampus disease ". An important and lasting concern of Joseph Wilder were his studies on the pharmacology and dynamics of the vegetative-nervous diseases, as published for the first time in 1930 under the title "The law of initial value - an unnoticed biological law" and summarized again in 1967 in a review article "Stimulus and Response: The Law of Initial Value".

Joseph Wilder was also a pioneer of group psychotherapy and emphasized the plurality and interaction of psychodynamic, somatic and sociocultural factors as causal elements without, however, departing from the biological point of view.

Wilder was very productively represented in a number of scientific societies. In 1939, just one year after his emigration to the USA, he was able to found the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy and was its first president. He was a member of the American Medical Association, Psychiatric Association, Psychosomatic Society, Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Neurology, the Austrian Society for Neurology and Psychiatry and the Royal Academy of Health in London. He was also an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Psychotherapy. In 1966 he was awarded the Emil A. Gutheil Medal by the Association for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.

Joseph Wilder did not retire until the age of 74 in 1969, he first lived in Tannersville, New York and later in Hartford, Connecticut, where he died on October 31, 1976.

Works

  • The "starting value law" - an ignored biological law and its significance for research and practice. In: Z.ges.Neurol.Psychiat. Vol. 137 (1931), pp. 317-338.
  • Stimulus and Response: The Law of Initial Value . Wright & Sons, Bristol 1967.

literature

  • G. Schnaberth, Ruth Koblizek: 100 Years of the Rosenhügel Neurological Center - A Nathaniel Freiherr von Rothschild Foundation. Verlag Memo-Verein für Geschichtsforschung, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-9501238-5-2 , pp. 28ff.
  • G. Schnaberth, Ruth Koblizek: The neurology in Vienna from 1870 to 2010. Publisher Memo-Verein für Geschichtsforschung, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-9501238-4-5 , p. 107ff.
  • The National Cyclopedia of American Biography: Wilder Joseph. James T. White & Company, Vol. 60, Clifton, NJ 1981, pp. 276-277.
  • Joseph Wilder: Curriculum vitae. Typewritten manuscript, dated 1.XII.1972, corrected by hand on 16.II.1976. Josephinum, archival collection of the Medical University of Vienna.
  • Joseph Wilder: List of Publications (1923–1974). Josephinum, archival collection of the Medical University of Vienna.

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personal data
SURNAME Wilder, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and American neurologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Drohobycz (Galicia)
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1976
Place of death Hartford, Connecticut , USA