Roy Richard Grinker Sr. (August 2, 1900 – May 9, 1993) was an American neurologist and

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, Professor of Psychiatry at University of Chicago, and pioneer in American psychiatry and

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Biography

Grinker was born in Chicago, where his father was a neuropsychiatrist. He received a B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1919 and a M.D. in 1921 from Rush Medical College. Directly afterwards he spent a postgraduate year in Europe. In 1933 back in Europe he took psychoanalytic training with Sigmund Freud."Roy R. Grinker Sr." (1981) interview in: ''Psychiatrists on Psychiatry''. Michael Shepherd ed. p.31 In 1927 Grinker started teaching at the University of Chicago. In World War II he served at the U.S. Army Medical Corps in North Africa, where with John P. Spiegel he wrote the book ''Men Under Stress''. Back in Chicago in 1946 Grinker started at the Michael Reese Hospital as director of the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training. and as analyst at the

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. From 1951 to 1969 he was clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and professor at Northwestern University. In 1969 became professor of psychiatry at the

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. Grinker was the chief editor of the American Medical Association's

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for 17 years. Grinker was the father of Roy R. Grinker Jr. and grandfather of

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(born 1961), Professor of Anthropology, International Affairs, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University. The neuropathological phenomenon

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is named after Grinker.

Selected publications

* 1933. ''Grinker's Neurology'' * 1946. ''Men under stress.'' with John P. Spiegel, Philadelphia: Blakiston. 1945. * 1945. ''War Neuroses''. with John P. Spiegel, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945. * 1953. ''Psychosomatic Research''. New York: Norton * 1955. ''Anxiety and stress''. With H. Basowitz, H. Persky, and S.J. Korchin * 1961. ''The phenomena of depressions''. With J. Miller, M. Sabshin, R. Nunn, and J.C. Nunnally * 1967. ''Toward a Unified Theory of Human Behavior: An Introduction to General Systems Theory'', with Helen MacGill Hughes, 390 pp. * 1968. ''The borderline syndrome: A behavioral study of ego-functions'' With B. Werble & R.C. Drye

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External links

Memorial for Roy R. Grinker Sr.

Roy R. Grinker Sr., M.D. (1900–1993)
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