Philip Solomon

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Dr. Philip Solomon (April 16, 1926 - May 31, 2002) was an American psychiatrist and researcher.

Contents 1 Biography 2 National positions held 3 Bibliography 4 Notes

[edit] Biography

A graduate of Havard College, 1927, and Harvard Medical School, Solomon served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy attached to the sixth Marine division during World War II. He was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Physician in Chief of Psychiatry at Boston City Hospital from 1952 until 1969. He founded the College Mental Health Center in Boston in 1968.^[1] In 1969, Solomon moved to La Jolla, California where he served as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD Medical School.

His fields of research included electroencephalography , sensory deprivation, alcoholism, suicide, and other clinical subjects, and his publications number over 200, including several books.

Dr. Solomon was married three times - his second wife was U.S. Senator Maurine Brown Neuberger^[2] - and had three children.

Dr. Solomon is preceded in death by his first wife, Sarah "Pebbles" Solomon of Boston, his second wife U.S. Senator Maureen Neuberger, and survived third ex-wife, Dr. Susan Thurman Kleeman of Boston, son Andrew L. Solomon and Andrew's wife, Dana Donsky Solomon of Houston, two daughters, Linda Solomon of Houston and Susan Thurman Solomon of Boston, step son, Jeffrey Thurman Kleeman of Los Angeles, grandsons, Rex Solomon of Houston and Keith Solomon, and Keith's wife, Dr. Ilene Simon Solomon of Los Angeles, and great-granddaughter, Kayla Solomon of Los Angeles.

[edit] National positions held

• Consultant, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington. D.C.
• Chairman of the American Psychiatric Association Committee on Psychiatry and Medical Practice

[edit] Bibliography

• Sensory Deprivation: A Symposium (1961) (editor) OCLC 538525
• The Psychiatric Consultation (1968) (editor with Werner M. Mendel) OCLC 643469
• Handbook of Psychiatry (1974) ISBN 0870411640

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Solomon, P.; Patch, V. D.; Sturrock, J.D.; Wexler, D. (1967). "A new approach to student mental health in small colleges". American Journal of Psychiatry 124: 658–661. DOI:10.1176/appi.ajp.124.5.658. 
2. ^ Mark's Other Woman, Time Magazine, November 5, 1965.