Adolph Stern
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Adolph Stern (1879- 20 August 1958[1] or 22 August 1958[2][3]) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is credited with producing the first formal account of borderline personality.[4][5]
Life
[edit]Adolph Stern arrived in the United States at the age of 4 from Hungary.[3] He received his Bachelor of Arts in 1898 from City University of New York and his MD from Columbia University. He then worked for 3 years as a resident physician at Kings Park Psychiatric Center. He then practiced in New York in Neurology and psychiatry.[2] He first became interested in psychoanalysis in 1910, and by 1915 had joined the American Psychoanalytic Association.[1] From 1914 to 1917 he was affiliated with the Neurological and Vanderbilt Clinic. In 1920 he was analysed by Sigmund Freud.[1] Between 1920 and 1922 he was co-chief of the Mental Hygiene department of the Mount Sinai Hospital alongside Dr Oberndorf.[2]
From 1927 to 1928 he was president of the American Psychoanalytic Association.[1] He was also president of the New York Psychoanalytic Society on three separate occasions 1922–1923, 1924–1925, and 1940–1942.[1] From the foundation of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1931 he was an instructor there, and was an emeritus instructor at the time of his death.[1]
Stern worked with borderline-personality patients, who he felt did not respond well to classical psychoanalytic work.[6] He argued that histories of trauma were very common and that more active and supportive techniques were required[4]
Death
[edit]He died on 20[1] or 22[2][3] August 1958 following a short illness, whilst vacationing in his holiday home in New Jersey.[1] Other sources state he died of a heart attack in Lenox Hill Hospital.[3] Prior to his death he lived on 134 West Fifty-fifth Street, New York. [3] He was survived by his widow Mamie and brothers John, Albert, Benjamin, and Peter. [3]
Important works
[edit]- Adolph Stern (1938) "Psychoanalytic Investigation of and Therapy in the Border Line Group of Neuroses", The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 7:4, 467–489, doi:10.1080/21674086.1938.11925367
- Adolph Stern (1957). "The Transference in the Borderline Group of Neuroses", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 5(2), 348–350. doi:10.1177/000306515700500211
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h "PEP | Browse | Read - Adolph Stern—1879-1958". pep-web.org. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ^ a b c d Shoenfeld, Dudley D. (April 1959). "In Memoriam". Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 7 (2): 381–383. doi:10.1177/000306515900700212. ISSN 0003-0651. PMID 13641079. S2CID 221012609.
- ^ a b c d e f "DR. ADOLPH STERN 'DIES: ' PSYCHOANALYST HERE WAS 79-I STUDIED UNDER FREUD". New York Times. 23 August 1958. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
- ^ a b Jones, David W. (July 2023). "A history of borderline: disorder at the heart of psychiatry". Journal of Psychosocial Studies. 16 (2): 117–134. doi:10.1332/147867323X16871713092130. ISSN 1478-6737.
- ^ Health (UK), National Collaborating Centre for Mental (2009), "BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER", Borderline Personality Disorder: Treatment and Management, British Psychological Society (UK), retrieved 2023-08-20
- ^ Bateman, Anthony W. (2011), "Borderline personality disorder.", History of psychotherapy: Continuity and change (2nd ed.)., Washington: American Psychological Association, pp. 588–600, doi:10.1037/12353-037, ISBN 978-1-4338-0762-6, retrieved 2023-08-20
