Carl Pfeiffer

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Carl Curt Pfeiffer (1908-1988) was one of the founders of orthomolecular psychiatry . An MD and PhD, he was Chair of the Pharmacology Department at Emory University. Abram Hoffer was a collaborator of his. Linus Pauling was aware of, and perhaps marginally involved in his efforts. For many years Dr. Pfeiffer helped run the Princeton Brain-Bio Center, now known as the Earth House, which is dedicated to the orthomolecular treatment of those with psychiatric problems.

The Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Warrenville, Illinois is named in his honor.

[edit] Bibliography

By Carl Pfeiffer:

• Pfeiffer C (1988). Nutrition and Mental Illness : An Orthomolecular Approach to Balancing Body Chemistry. Healing Arts Press. ISBN 0-89281-226-5. 
• Pfeiffer C (January 1976). Mental and Elemental Nutrients: A Physician's Guide to Nutrition and Health Care. Keats Pub. ISBN 0-87983-114-6. 
• Carl C. Pfeiffer, Ph.D., M.D. and Scott LaMola, B.S. Zinc and Manganese in the Schizophrenias First published in Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1983

By Others:

• Obituary in the New York Times; Late City Final Edition of November 23, 1988, Page B8.

[edit] External links

• Carl Pfeiffer's biography.
• Saul AW, Jolliffe M, Hoffer A, Bibliography of the Publications of CARL C. PFEIFFER, MD, PhD, DYS.com, accessed 4 Nov 2006
• The Carl Pfeiffer Treatment Center - Continues the research in orthomolecular psychiatry and treatment protocols that Carl Pfeiffer helped begin.
• The Earth House - Dr. Pfeiffer's "Princeton Brain Biocenter has since been renamed the "Earth House."