Gregory Zilboorg

Gregory Zilboorg (Russian: Григорий Зильбург ) ( born December 25, 1890 in Kiev, † in New York, New York USA 1959) was a psychiatrist and historian of psychiatry.

Life

Before the Russian Revolution Zilboorg studied medicine in Saint Petersburg. In 1917, he was with the Department of Labor for the provisional government under its two presidents, Georgi Lvov and Alexander Kerensky, works. 1919 emigrated Zilboorg in the U.S. and continued his medical studies at Columbia University in New York continued. At this time he translated various literary works from Russian into English, including the famous dystopian novel by Yevgeny Zamyatin We.

After completing his studies Zilboorg first worked in Bloomingdale Hospital ( New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division ) and later founded a psychiatric practice in New York. Beginning of the 1930s he wrote several volumes on the history of psychiatry; these books are still considered crucial in this area. The Medical Man and the Witch During the Renaissance began Zilboorg 1935 in the form of a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University. 1941 published Zilboorg A History of Medical Psychology and In 1951 Sigmund Freud.

In his practice Zilboorg treated many famous patients, including George Gershwin, Lillian Hellman, Ralph Ingersoll, Edward MM Warburg, Marshall Field, Kay Swift and James Warburg. The musical Lady in the Dark is probably based on the experience of Moss Hart during the analysis at Zilboorg.

1919 married Zilboorg Ray Liebow. She gave birth to two children, Nancy and Gregory Jr. married in 1946 Zilboorg Margaret Stone, with whom he had three children ( Caroline, John and Matthew ).

Literary remains

The extensive records Zilboorgs are now in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. This collection contains manuscripts of his publications and his personal correspondence with his second wife Margaret.

Publications

  • A History of Medical Psychology (1941 )
  • Sigmund Freud ( 1951)
  • Psychology of the Criminal Act and Punishment (1954 )

Translations

  • He, the One who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev, from the Russian with an introduction by Gregory Zilboorg ( 1921)
  • We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, from the Russian (1924 )
  • The Criminal, the Judge and the Public; A Psychological Analysis, by Franz Alexander and Hugo dust, from the German (1931 )
  • (together with Bertram D. Lewin ) Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis by Otto Fenichel, from the German (1934 )
  • Psychiatrist
  • Medical historian
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Ukrainian
  • Americans
  • Born in 1890
  • Died in 1959
  • Man
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