Dr. Philip Solomon (April 16, 1907 – May 31, 2002) was an American psychiatrist and researcher.

Life and work

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graduate of

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(1927) and

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, Solomon served as a Commander in the

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attached to the sixth Marine division during

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as the Division Psychiatrist. He was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Physician in Chief of Psychiatry at

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from 1952 until 1969. He founded the College Mental Health Center in Boston in 1968. In 1969, Solomon moved to

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where he served as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the

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Medical School. His fields of research included electroencephalography, sensory deprivation,

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, suicide and other clinical subjects. His publications number over 200, including several books. Married three times with three children, Dr. Solomon was preceded in death by his first wife, Sarah "Pebbles" Gelman Solomon (of Hartford, Boston, Los Angeles and Houston), his second wife U.S. Senator

Maurine Brown Neuberger Maurine Neuberger-Solomon, best known as Maurine Neuberger (née Brown; January 9, 1907February 22, 2000) was an American politician who served as a United States senator for the State of Oregon from November 1960 to January 1967. She was the fou ...

and survived by his third ex-wife, Dr. Susan Thurman Kleeman of Boston; son, fine art photographer Andrew L. Solomon, and Andrew's wife, Dana Donsky Solomon, Esq, of Houston; two daughters, music and popular culture critic

Linda Solomon Linda Solomon (born May 10, 1937, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic and editor. Although she has written about various aspects of popular culture, her main focus has been on folk music, blues, R&B, jazz and country music. Livi ...

of Houston and Susan Thurman Solomon of Boston; stepson, Jeffrey Thurman Kleeman of Los Angeles; grandsons,

Rex Solomon Rex Solomon (born March 1966) is an American jewelry store owner and former capella directory publisher. Biography Rex Solomon a fifth generation Texan, was born in March 1966, and raised in Houston, attending Williston Northampton School in Easth ...

, and Rex's wife Margaret Ann Solomon, Esq, and great grandson Dylan Chase Solomon, of Houston, and cinematographer Keith Solomon and his wife, and two great granddaughters of Los Angeles. He was brother in to artist Aaron Gelman. He was buried in Temple Israel Cemetery in

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National positions

* Consultant, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington. D.C. * Chairman of the

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Committee on Psychiatry and Medical Practice * The second man to be a living spouse of a serving United States Senator, and the first to marry a sitting Senator.

Bibliography

* ''Sensory Deprivation: A Symposium '' (1961) (editor) * ''Recent Research on Schizophrenia'' (1964) (editor with Bernard C. Glueck, Jr., M.D.) Library of Congress Catalog Card No 64-66258 * ''Psychiatric Drugs'' (1966) (editor) Library of Congress Catalog Card No 66-11898 * ''The Psychiatric Consultation'' (1968) (editor with Werner M. Mendel) * ''Handbook of Psychiatry'' (1974)

References

External links

"Capsules," ''Time'', December 19, 1955.
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