Winfred Overholser papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 5000
Subjects: Mental health; Forensic psychiatry; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatry; Correspondence; Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Diseases; Saint Elizabeth's Hospital (Washington, D.C.); Massachusetts. Dept. of Mental Diseases. Division for the Examination of Prisoners; Prisoners; Mental health services; Massachusetts
Description: Correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Overholser's career in psychiatry and his research in forensic psychiatry.  Documents his work as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, director of the department's Division for the Examination of Prisoners, and superintendent of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C.  Correspondents include Harold H. Burton, C.G. Jung, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Karl A. Menninger, Richard M. Nixon, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Santayana, and Gregory Zilboorg.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Winfred Overholser, Jr., and American Security and Trust Company, 1965.

Psychiatrist, educator, and superintendent of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010170