John M. Murray papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10500
Subjects: Correspondence; Boston University School of Medicine; Military psychiatry; Military Aeronautics; Boston University; United States. Army Air Forces; Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; United States; Study and teaching; World War, 1939-1945; Psychological aspects; Psychiatry; Psychoanalysis; Societies
Description: Correspondence, subject files, writings, and other papers documenting Murray's career in psychiatry and psychoanalysis.  Relates chiefly to his introduction of psychiatric concepts and training to the American military during his service as chief psychiatrist for the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, his role as founding member and president of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and his work as professor of clinical psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine (1945-1962).  Correspondents include Dwight D. Eisenhower, Frank Fremont-Smith, Anna Freud, Lawrence S. Kubie, William Claire Menninger, Eugene Meyer, and Howard McC. Snyder.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Edna F. Murray, via Sigmund Freud Archives, 1985.

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Forms part of: Sigmund Freud collection.