Isador Coriat

Isador Coriat
Born (1875-12-10)December 10, 1875
Philadelphia, United States
Died May 26, 1943(1943-05-26) (aged 67)
Boston, United States
Alma mater Tufts Medical School (1900)
Occupation Psychiatrist, neurologist
Spouse(s) Etta Dann
Parent(s) Hyram Coriat
Clara née Einstein

Isador Henry Coriat (December 10, 1875 – May 26, 1943) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist of Moroccan descent. 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 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 James Jackson 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

References

  1. 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 (1971), ISBN 0-19-501427-8
  2. Dictionary of American Biography volume 12. Scribner, 1959 page 190
  3. Andrew R. Heinze: Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the Twentieth Century. Princeton University Press, 2004 ISBN 0-691-11755-1 page 120-123
  4. International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Alain de Mijolla (ed.) page 207 ISBN 0-02-865994-5
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