Bernard Charles Glueck Sr. (December 10, 1884 - October 5, 1972) was a

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and

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. He established the first prison psychiatric clinic and was an

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in the

Leopold and Loeb Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. (November 19, 1904 – August 29, 1971) and Richard Albert Loeb (; June 11, 1905 – January 28, 1936), usually referred to collectively as Leopold and Loeb, were two wealthy students at the University of Chicago ...

trial.Staff report (October 9, 1972). Defense Figure in Leopold and Loeb Trial Is Dead. ''

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'' He also served as president of the

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in 1945.Lebensohn, Zigmond M. (1973)
In memoriam: Bernard Glueck Sr.
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'' 1973;130:326-326.

Life and career

Glueck was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1900. He earned his medical degree from

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in 1909, then started a career in

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. Glueck founded the first prison psychiatric clinic at

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in 1915. He served in the

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of the

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, starting in 1918. In 1920, he introduced his brother

Sheldon Glueck Sheldon Glueck (August 15, 1896 – March 10, 1980) was a Polish-American criminologist.Staff report (March 13, 1980)Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Dies; Studied the Roots of Delinquency.''New York Times'' He and his wife Eleanor Glueck collaborated e ...

to his brother's future wife

Eleanor Glueck Eleanor Touroff Glueck (April 12, 1898 – September 25, 1972) was an American social worker and criminologist. She and her husband Sheldon Glueck collaborated extensively on research related to juvenile delinquency and developed the "social predict ...

. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck went on to have a lifelong collaboration studying juvenile delinquency. Later, Glueck worked for the

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(which would later become the

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) and the

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Bureau of Child Guidance. In 1924,

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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

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in 1927. After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the

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, the

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, and John Umstead Hospital in

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. His son

Bernard Glueck Jr. Bernard Charles Glueck Jr. (August 26, 1914 – July 24, 1999) was an American psychiatrist. He served as director of research at The Institute of Living, now part of Hartford Hospital.Ploss, Donna E. (July 31, 1999). A promise Kept, a journey ...

(1914–1999) was also a psychiatrist, affiliated with the Institute for Living in Connecticut.Ploss, Donna E. (July 31, 1999). A promise Kept, a journey together. ''

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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

External links

Guide to the Bernard Glueck Sr. Papers 1910–1971
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