Mental health lecture series sound recordings 1949

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Mental health lecture series sound recordings 1949

The Town Hall, Inc. sponsored a full series of lectures, adult education courses, and musical performances in its auditorium in New York City. It also presented the popular weekly radio program, "America's Town Meeting of the Air.". The collection consists of sound recordings of twelve lectures from Town Hall's short courses on mental heath. Present are the full eight lectures from the series "Psychiatry and You" given in the Spring of 1949 and four of the lectures from the Fall 1949 series, "Psychiatry and Personal Relations." Prominent lecturers included Erich Fromm, Lawrence Kubie, and Margaret Mead. Among the topics covered were alchoholism, mental illness, physical disabilities, male-female relations, and psychiatric services.

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Town Hall, Inc.

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The Town Hall, Inc. sponsored a full series of lectures, adult education courses, and musical performances in its auditorium in New York City. It also presented the popular weekly radio program, "America's Town Meeting of the Air." From the description of Mental health lecture series sound recordings, 1949. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144651938 In the 1890's a group of suffragists (The League for Political Education) raised the money to build their own mee...

Rennie, Thomas A. C. (Thomas Alexander Cumming), 1904-1956

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Psychiatrist on staff at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, N.Y.C. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1946-1952. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122317640 ...

Kubie, Lawrence S. (Lawrence Schlesinger), 1896-1973

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Physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst. From the description of Papers of Lawrence S. Kubie, 1943-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071564 Biographical Note 1896, Mar. 17 Born, New York, N.Y. 1916 A.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ...

Senn, Milton J. E., 1902-....

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Milton J.E. Senn : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619700 Milton J. E. Senn was born in Milwaukee in 1902. He earned his M.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1925 and served as a fellow in pediatrics at Washington University in St. Louis from 1928 to 1933. He moved to Cornell University Medical School in 1933 as a professor of pediatrics. In 1939, upon completing a...

Appel, Kenneth E. (Kenneth Ellmaker), 1896-1979

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Bartemeier, Leo H. (Leo Henry), 1895-1982

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Strecker, Edward A. (Edward Adam), 1886-1959

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Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980

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Erich Fromm (1900-1980) was a psychoanalyst, author, educator, and social philosopher. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1934. In New York Fromm was associated (until 1939) with the International Institute for Social Research. Fromm authored numerous books including Escape from Freedom which won him acclaim as an author of great brilliance and originality. From the guide to the Erich Fromm papers, 1929-1949, 1932-1949, (The New York Public Librar...

Rusk, Howard A., 1901-1989

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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Binger, Carl (Carl Alfred Lanning), 1889-1976

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Knight, Robert P. (Robert Palmer), 1902-1966

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Allen, Frederick Harold, 1890-

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