Nathan S. Kline

Nathan Schellenberg Kline (born March  22, 1916 in Philadelphia , †  February 11, 1983 in New York City ) was an American psychiatrist who worked from 1952 until his death at the Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York . Through his research, he contributed to the use of the active ingredients iproniazid and lithium as antidepressants and reserpine as a neuroleptic , for which he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957 and 1964 .

Life

Nathan S. Kline in 1916 in Philadelphia born and gained in 1938 a BA at Swarthmore College . He then studied from 1938 to 1939 at Harvard University and from 1939 to 1941 at the New School in New York, before graduating from New York University in 1943 to study medicine . In 1943/1944 he worked at the Washington School of Psychiatry , 1947 at Princeton University and from 1947 to 1948 at Rutgers University . In the meantime he did military service from 1944 to 1946.

From 1946 to 1950 he was a doctor at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Lyons, New York . He then served as research director at Worcester State Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts until 1952 and then until 1975 as director of the research center at Rockland State Hospital in Orangeburg, New York . From 1975 until his death he worked there as research director. In addition, he worked as an advisor to the World Health Organization and from 1953 to 1983 in private practice in New York, and supported the establishment of psychiatric care facilities in Haiti and Liberia .

Nathan S. Kline was married in 1942 and had one daughter; In 1976 he separated from his wife. He died in New York in 1983 during heart surgery .

Act

As part of his research activities, Nathan S. Kline dealt with the drug treatment of mental disorders , and in this area introduced the active ingredients iproniazid and lithium as antidepressants and reserpine as a neuroleptic into clinical practice. In addition, he devoted himself to the biochemical and endocrinological basics as well as social aspects of mental disorders. He has published more than 35 books on psychiatry and neurology and more than 300 articles in medical journals and other newspapers.

Awards

Nathan S. Kline received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research from the Lasker Foundation in 1957 for his work on reserpine for the treatment of schizophrenia and in 1964 for his contributions to the therapy of depression with iproniazid , making him the only two-time recipient of this Price. From the Royal College of Psychiatrists , he was named an honorary member. The Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research , which emerged from Rockland State Hospital, and the Nathan S. Kline Medal of Merit of the International Commission Against Mental Illness bear his name in memory of him.

Works (selection)

• Handbook of Psychiatric Treatment in Medical Practice. Philadelphia 1962
• Psychopharmacology. Boston 1965
• Depression: Its Diagnosis and Treatment. Basel 1969
• From Sad to Glad: Kline on Depression. New York 1974
• Psychiatric Syndromes and Drug Treatment. New York 1979

literature

• Obituary: Nathan Schellenberg Kline. In: Psychiatric Bulletin. 7/1983. The Royal College of Psychiatrists, pp. 174/175, ISSN  1758-3209
• Kline, Nathan Schellenberg. In: Pennsylvania Biographical Dictionary. Somerset Publishers, St. Clair Shores 1999, ISBN 0-40-309950-1 , pp. 649/650