Oral history interview with Lawrence Coleman Kolb [electronic resource], 1977.

Biographical Note

Psychiatrist.

Scope and Contents

Education; work in neurology with Adolf Meyer; work with war neurosis as Navy psychiatrist, World War II; analysis with Frieda Reichmann; director of research, National Institute for Mental Health, 1946-49; teaching activites and psychotherapeutic work with amputees, Mayo Clinic, 1949-54; development of theory of personality sets; association with New York Psychiatric Institute; establishment of Washington Heights Community Mental Health project; beginnings of Columbia Psychoanalytic Clinic, its training program; expansion of psychoanalytic influence in medical schools; student unrest, 1960s, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; impressions of Harry Stack Sullivan, Frederick Peterson, David Levy, Kevin Cahill.

Subjects

• Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
• Interviews.
• Kolb, Lawrence C. (Lawrence Coleman), 1911-2006--Interviews.
• Mayo Clinic.
• Medical education.
• National Institute of Health (U.S.)
• Oral histories.
• Psychiatrists--Interviews.
• Psychiatry.
• Psychoanalysis.
• Psychotherapy--Research.
• Students--Political activity.
• Swerdloff, Bluma, interviewer.