The fall schedule for the monthly colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine is copied below. The talks take place at 4:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M. in Room L-007, Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School, 260 Longwood Avenue, Harvard Medical Area, Boston. The colloquium series is sponsored by the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital And Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine.
COLLOQUIUM ON THE HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY AND MEDICINE
The Colloquium on the History of Psychiatry and Medicine offers an opportunity to clinicians, researchers, and historians interested in a historical perspective on their fields to discuss informally historical studies in progress. Below you will find an announcement of this year’s unusually rich Colloquium. Please join us. Please let other people and groups interested in a historical perspective know about this Colloquium. Attached is a copy of the announcement for distribution. Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital And Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine present
Open to students of history and those valuing a historical perspective on their professions.
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September 20 “Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family” Sophie Freud, MSW, LICSW, Ph.D.: Professor of Social Work emerita, Simmons Graduate School of Social Work; author of Living in the Shadow of the Freud Family (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007)
October 18 “The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives, including the Prediction of Genocide” Jack Nusan Porter, Ph.D.: Director, The Spencer Institute, Newton, Massachusetts; former Research Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University; Adjunct Lecturer in World History at Roxbury Community College. author of The Genocidal Mind: Sociological and Sexual Perspectives (University Press of America, 2006)
November 15 “Abby’s Deal: A History of the Concord, Massachusetts Community Mental Health Center” John F. Merrifield, M.D.: Director emeritus of Psychiatric Inpatient and Emergency Services at Emerson Hospital for the Concord Area Community Mental Health Center; author of Abby’s Deal: A History of the Concord, Massachusetts Community Mental Health Center (Portsmouth, NH: Peter E. Randall, 2006)
December 20 “The Recent History of Infection and Immunization” Scott Podolsky, M.D.: Director, Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
4:00 P.M.-5:30 P.M. Room L-007, Medical Education Center, Harvard Medical School 260 Longwood Avenue, Harvard Medical Area, Boston
For further information contact David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director, phone/FAX 617-332-0032, e-mail david_satin@hms.harvard.edu — David G. Satin, M.D.
Office of Postgraduate and Continuing Education, McLean Hospital and The Center for the History of Medicine, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine David G. Satin, M.D., Colloquium Director c/o 21 Whittlesey Road, Newton, Massachusetts 02459-2621 Telephone: (617) 332-0032; FAX: (617) 332-0032; e-mail: david_satin@hms.harvard.edu