Jerome Frank (psychiatrist)
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Jerome David Frank (May 30, 1909 in
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– March 14, 2005) was an American
psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...
who held the post of Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. His book ''Persuasion and Healing: A Comparative Study of Psychotherapy'' was influential in his field. Frank's personal papers are archived in the Personal Papers Collections of the Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives,
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. He conducted the ''Soda Cracker Experiment'', which inspired Stanley Milgram's famous experiment on obedience. He was also an outspoken critic of
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s.


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Obituary: Jerome Frank, 95, Noted Psychotherapy Researcher




1909 births 2005 deaths American psychiatrists Johns Hopkins University faculty {{US-psychiatrist-stub