Reminiscences of Karl Murdock Bowman : oral history, 1968.

Biographical Note

Psychiatrist.

Scope and Contents

Medical education and early practice; psychiatric treatment for soldiers, 1917-1919; Jungian and Freudian influences; Boston Psychopathic Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Bellevue Hospital; American Psychiatric Association: president, 1944-1945, internal politics, use of shock treatment; chemical and organic aspects of mental disease; relation of law to mental disorders: RESEARCH ON ALCOHOLISM, SEXUAL DEVIATION, NARCOTICS; Leopold-Loeb trial; Langley Porter Clinic, 1941-1956. Recollections of teachers, students, and colleagues.

Subjects

• American Psychiatric Association.
• Bowman, Karl Murdock, 1888-1973.
• Interviews.
• Mills, Alden B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories.
• Psychiatrists--Interviews.
• Psychiatry.

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