Bernard Glueck Sr.
Bernard Charles Glueck Sr. (December 10, 1884 - October 5, 1972) was a
Life and career
Glueck was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1900. He earned his medical degree from Georgetown University in 1909, then started a career in public health.
Glueck founded the first prison psychiatric clinic at
Later, Glueck worked for the
In 1924, Clarence Darrow sought out Glueck and two other alienists to testify for the defense the kidnapping/murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Both were convicted.
Glueck founded the private Stony Lodge Hospital in Ossining, New York, in 1927. After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the Veterans Administration, the University of North Carolina, and John Umstead Hospital in Butner, North Carolina.
His son Bernard Glueck Jr. (1914–1999) was also a psychiatrist, affiliated with the Institute for Living in Connecticut.[3]
Selected publications
- Studies in Forensic Psychology (1916)
- Translator from German to English of Alfred Adler's opus magnum, The neurotic constitution: Outlines of a comparative individualistic psychology and psychotherapy (1917)
- A study of 608 admissions to Sing Sing Prison (1918)
- The psychoanalysis of the total personality: The application of Freud's theory of the ego to the neuroses (1935)
- A Note on War Psychiatry (1942)
- Social psychopathology (1949)
References
- ^ Staff report (October 9, 1972). Defense Figure in Leopold and Loeb Trial Is Dead. The New York Times
- Am J Psychiatry1973;130:326-326.
- ^ Ploss, Donna E. (July 31, 1999). A promise Kept, a journey together. Hartford Courant
External links
- Guide to the Bernard Glueck Sr. Papers 1910–1971 via University of Chicago
- Works by Bernard Glueck at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Bernard Glueck Sr. at Internet Archive