Scope and Contents Psychiatrist S. Spafford Ackerly studied under Alfred Adler at Yale before coming to the University of Louisville in 1932 to be the first full-time faculty member in psychiatry and to head a mental health clinic. He began programs to educate medical students in psychiatry and to extend services to the greater Louisville community. At the medical school, he expanded the psychiatry curriculum and added innovative features so that by 1936, the department was named one of the eleven best. In the...

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Manuscript of an unpublished book titled: Obsessive Children: A Sociopsychiatric Study.

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This collection consists of three framed collections of newspaper clippings dating from 1947-1965.