Isador Henry Coriat (December 10, 1875 – May 26, 1943) was an American psychiatrist and neurologist of
Moroccan-Jewish descent. He was one of the first American psychoanalysts.
Biography
He was born in Philadelphia in 1875 as the son of Harry (Hyram) Coriat, a
Moroccan Jew
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native of
Marrakesh
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, who emigrated to the United States from France in 1867, and Clara née Einstein. He was of Moroccan Jewish descent on father's side and German on mother's side. He grew up in
Boston
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and attended
Tufts Medical School
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, graduating in 1900.
He was one of the founders of
Boston Psychoanalytic Society
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, the first secretary in 1914 and president in years 1930–32. Coriat was the only Freudian analyst in Boston during the period after
James Jackson Putnam
James Jackson Putnam (October 3, 1846 – November 4, 1918) was an American neurologist.
Biography
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1866, Putnam went to Europe to study in the co ...
's death.
[International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Alain de Mijolla (ed.) page 207 ]
Coriat worked with the Rev.
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Places
;In Australia
*Elwood, Victoria
;In the United States of America
*Elwood, Illinois
*Elwood, Indiana
*Elwood, Kansas
*Elwood, Missouri
*Elwood, Nebraska
*Elwood-Magnolia, New Jersey
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, served as the medical expert for the
Emmanuel Movement
The Emmanuel Movement was a psychologically-based approach to religious healing introduced in 1906 as an outreach of the Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts. In practice, the religious element was de-emphasized and the primary modalities w ...
and co-authored ''Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders''.
Coriat married Etta Dann in 1910. He died on May 26, 1943, after a brief illness.
Selected works
* ''Abnormal Psychology. New York, Moffat, Yard, 1910
* ''The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth.'' New York, Moffat, Yard and company, 1912
* “The Oedipus-Complex in the Psychoneuroses,” ''The Journal of Abnormal Psychology'', 7(3) (Aug.-Sept. 1912): 176-195.
* “Homosexuality, its Psychogenesis and Treatment,” ''New York Medical Journal'' (March 22, 1913).
* ''The Meaning of Dreams.'' Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1915
* ''Repressed Emotions.'' New York, Brentano's 1920
* ''Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders.'' By Elwood Worcester, Samual McComb
ndIsador M. Coriat. New York, Moffat, Yard & company, 1908
* ''Stammering, a Psychoanalytic Interpretation.'' N.Y. : 1928
* ''What is Psychoanalysis?'' New York : Moffat, Yard & Co., 1917
* Sex and Hunger. ''Psychoanal Rev'' 8, 375-381 (1921
link* The Sadism in Oscar Wilde's “Salome”. ''Psychoanal Rev'' 1, 257-259 (1914
link* Humor and hypomania. ''Psychiatric Quarterly'' 13, 4, s. 681-688 (1939) 10.1007/BF01571533
* “The Structure of the Ego,” ''The Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' 9(3) (1940): 380–393.
* “Some Personal Reminiscences of Psychoanalysis in Boston: An Autobiographical Note,” ''The Psychoanalytic Review'' 32(1) (January 1945): 1–8.
* “Obituary: Isador H. Coriat,” ''The Psychoanalytic Review'' 30(4) (October 1943): 479–483.
References
External links
Isador H. Coriat papers, 1869, 1883, 1887, 1892, 1899-1943 (inclusive). B MS c52. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
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American psychiatrists
1875 births
1943 deaths
American people of Moroccan descent
Physicians from Philadelphia
Tufts University School of Medicine alumni