Isador Coriat
Isador Henry Coriat (December 10, 1875, Philadelphia – May 26, 1943, Boston) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist. He was one of the first American psychoanalysts [1]. .
He was born in Philadelphia in 1875 as the son of Hyram Coriat and Clara née Einstein.[2] He was of Moroccan-Spanish descent on father's side and German on mother's side. He grew up in Boston and attended Tufts Medical School, graduating in 1900.[3]
He was one of the founders of Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the first secretary in 1914 and president in years 1930-32. Coriat was the only Freudian analyst in Boston during the period after Putnam's death.[4]
Coriat worked with the Rev. Elwood Worcester, served as the medical expert for the Emmanuel Movement and co-authored Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders.
Coriat married Etta Dann in 1910. He died on May 26, 1943 after a brief illness.
Selected works
- Abnormal Psychology. New York, Moffat, Yard, 1910
- The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth. New York, Moffat, Yard and company, 1912
- The Meaning of Dreams. Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1915
- Repressed Emotions. New York, Brentano's 1920
- Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders. By Elwood Worcester, Samual McComb [and] Isador M. Coriat. New York, Moffat, Yard & company, 1908
- Stammering, a Psychoanalytic Interpretation. N.Y. : 1928
- What is Psychoanalysis? New York : Moffat, Yard & Co., 1917
- Sex and Hunger. Psychoanal Rev 8, 375-381 (1921) link
- The Sadism in Oscar Wilde's “Salome”. Psychoanal Rev 1, 257-259 (1914) link
- Humor and hypomania. Psychiatric Quarterly 13, 4, s. 681-688 (1939) 10.1007/BF01571533
References
- ^ Nathan G Hale: Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917 (Freud in America), Publisher: Oxford University Press,First Edition edition (1971), ISBN 0195014278
- ^ Dictionary of American Biography volume 12. Scribner, 1959 page 190
- ^ Andrew R. Heinze: Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2004 ISBN 0691117551 page 120-123
- ^ International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Alain de Mijolla (ed.) page 207 ISBN 0-02-865994-5
| Persondata |
| Name |
Coriat, Isador |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
American psychiatrist |
| Date of birth |
December 10, 1875 |
| Place of birth |
Philadelphia, United States |
| Date of death |
May 26, 1943 |
| Place of death |
Boston, United States |