Article ID: CBB193867677

Stanley Cobb, the Rockefeller Foundation and the evolution of American psychiatry (2018)

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Stanley Cobb founded the Harvard Departments of Neurology (1925) and Psychiatry (1934) with Rockefeller Foundation funding. Cobb was an important transitional figure in both neurology and psychiatry. He and his friend Alan Gregg were the most visible parts of the Rockefeller Foundation psychiatry project, which prepared American psychiatry for the rapid growth of psychiatric research after World War II. Edward Shorter called him the founder of American biological psychiatry, but this misunderstands Cobb and the Hegelian evolution of twentieth-century American psychiatry. I review the major role of the Rockefeller Foundation in the evolution of American academic psychiatry and the disappearance of Cobb’s teaching and that of his mentor Adolf Meyer, a founding father of American academic psychiatry.

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Authors & Contributors
Stevens, Courtney J.
Jevremović, Petar
Kempley, Eilís
Gershon, Ariel
Allevi, José Ignacio
Vivekanantham, Sayinthen
Concepts
Neurology
Psychiatry
Physicians; doctors
Discipline formation
Neurosciences
Medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Germany
France
Strasbourg (France)
England
Ohio (U.S.)
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Universidad Nacional del Litoral
Reichsuniversität Strassburg
Maudsley Hospital (England)
Yale University
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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