Adolf Meyer

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Adolf Meyer was a pioneering Swiss-American psychiatrist whose holistic, community-focused approach to mental illness made him a central figure in the early 20th-century mental hygiene movement.

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instanceOf Swiss-American
academic
human
psychiatrist
citizenship Switzerland
United States of America
countryOfBirth Switzerland NERFINISHED
countryOfDeath United States of America
dateOfBirth 1866-09-13
dateOfDeath 1950-03-17
educatedAt University of Zurich NERFINISHED
employer Johns Hopkins University NERFINISHED
Phipps Psychiatric Clinic NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Swiss
familyName Meyer NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork mental hygiene
neurology
psychiatry
psychopathology
givenName Adolf NERFINISHED
hasAcademicDiscipline clinical psychiatry
psychology
influenced American psychiatry
community psychiatry
occupational therapy
influencedBy Emil Kraepelin NERFINISHED
William James NERFINISHED
knownFor development of psychobiological model of mental illness
integrating biological, psychological, and social factors in psychiatry
leadership in the mental hygiene movement
languageOfWorkOrName English
German
movement mental hygiene movement
notableIdea holistic approach to mental illness
life chart method NERFINISHED
psychobiology
notableWork The Commonsense Psychiatry of Dr. Adolf Meyer NERFINISHED
occupation neurologist
psychiatrist
university professor
placeOfBirth Niederweningen NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Baltimore NERFINISHED
positionHeld director of the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital
residence Baltimore NERFINISHED
New York City
sexOrGender male
workLocation Baltimore NERFINISHED
New York City

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