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+ | He was born February 28, 1891 in Baranów Sandomierski, Poland.<ref name="SARNIA2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.sarnia.com/groups/recoveryinc/drlow.htm |title=Biography of Dr. Abraham A. Low |accessdate=2007-10-15 |date=2000-03-07| archiveurl= http://web.archive.org/web/20071024043303/http://www.sarnia.com/groups/recoveryinc/drlow.htm| archivedate= 24 October 2007 <!--DASHBot-->| deadurl= no}}</ref> |
| − | Low attended [[grade school]], [[high school]] and medical school in France from 1910 to 1918. He continued his medical education in [[Austria]], serving in the Medical Corps of the |
+ | Low attended [[grade school]], [[high school]] and medical school in France from 1910 to 1918. He continued his medical education in [[Austria]], serving in the Medical Corps of the Austrian Army. He graduated with a medical degree in 1919, after his military service, from the [[University of Vienna]] Medical School. After serving an [[internship]] in Vienna, Austria from 1919 to 1920, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining his U.S. citizenship in 1927. From 1921 to 1925 he practiced medicine in both New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. In 1925 he was appointed as an instructor of [[neurology]] at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] Medical School and became an associate professor of psychiatry.<ref name="SARNIA2000"/> In 1931 Low was appointed Assistant Director and in 1940 became Acting Director of the University's Neuropsychiatric Institute.<ref name="GROSZ1971">{{cite journal |title=Self-help through Recovery, Inc |last=Grosz |first=H. J. |journal=Current psychiatric therapies |volume=11 |year=1971 |pages=156–160 |pmid=5113142}}</ref> |
From 1931 to 1941 he supervised the Illinois State Hospitals. During this time he conducted demanding seminars with the staff and interviewed the most severe mental patients in the wards. In 1936, Low's ''Studies in Infant Speech and Thought'' was published by the University of Illinois Press.<ref name="SARNIA2000"/><ref name="LOW1936">{{cite book |last=Low |first=Abraham A. |title=Studies in infant speech and thought |publisher=[[University of Illinois]] |location=[[Urbana, Illinois]] |year=1936 |oclc=14752937}}</ref> Some sixty papers are by Low dealing variously with such topics as: Histopathology of brain and spinal cord, studies on speech disturbances (aphasias) in brain lesions, clinical testing of psychiatric and neurological conditions, studies in shock treatment, laboratory investigations of mental diseases and several articles on group psychotherapy had been published in medical periodicals.{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} |
From 1931 to 1941 he supervised the Illinois State Hospitals. During this time he conducted demanding seminars with the staff and interviewed the most severe mental patients in the wards. In 1936, Low's ''Studies in Infant Speech and Thought'' was published by the University of Illinois Press.<ref name="SARNIA2000"/><ref name="LOW1936">{{cite book |last=Low |first=Abraham A. |title=Studies in infant speech and thought |publisher=[[University of Illinois]] |location=[[Urbana, Illinois]] |year=1936 |oclc=14752937}}</ref> Some sixty papers are by Low dealing variously with such topics as: Histopathology of brain and spinal cord, studies on speech disturbances (aphasias) in brain lesions, clinical testing of psychiatric and neurological conditions, studies in shock treatment, laboratory investigations of mental diseases and several articles on group psychotherapy had been published in medical periodicals.{{Citation needed|date=October 2007}} |
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| − | In 1954 Low died at the [[Mayo Clinic]] in |
+ | In 1954 Low died at the [[Mayo Clinic]] in Rochester, Minnesota. His contributions to the psychiatric and mental health communities are often not well known, but his work has and continues to assist numerous individuals in the area of mental health.<ref name="SARNIA2000"/> |
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Abraham Low (1891–1954), was a Jewish-American neuropsychiatrist noted for his work establishing self-help programs for the mentally ill, and criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis.[1][2]
Early years
He was born February 28, 1891 in Baranów Sandomierski, Poland.[3]
Low attended grade school, high school and medical school in France from 1910 to 1918. He continued his medical education in Austria, serving in the Medical Corps of the Austrian Army. He graduated with a medical degree in 1919, after his military service, from the University of Vienna Medical School. After serving an internship in Vienna, Austria from 1919 to 1920, he immigrated to the United States, obtaining his U.S. citizenship in 1927. From 1921 to 1925 he practiced medicine in both New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois. In 1925 he was appointed as an instructor of neurology at the University of Illinois Medical School and became an associate professor of psychiatry.[3] In 1931 Low was appointed Assistant Director and in 1940 became Acting Director of the University's Neuropsychiatric Institute.[4]
From 1931 to 1941 he supervised the Illinois State Hospitals. During this time he conducted demanding seminars with the staff and interviewed the most severe mental patients in the wards. In 1936, Low's Studies in Infant Speech and Thought was published by the University of Illinois Press.[3][5] Some sixty papers are by Low dealing variously with such topics as: Histopathology of brain and spinal cord, studies on speech disturbances (aphasias) in brain lesions, clinical testing of psychiatric and neurological conditions, studies in shock treatment, laboratory investigations of mental diseases and several articles on group psychotherapy had been published in medical periodicals.[citation needed]
In 1954 Low died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His contributions to the psychiatric and mental health communities are often not well known, but his work has and continues to assist numerous individuals in the area of mental health.[3]
Recovery International
- Main article: Recovery International
In 1937, Low founded Recovery, Inc. He served as its medical director from 1937 to 1954. During this time he presented lectures to relatives of former patients on his work with these patients and the before and after scenarios. In 1941, Recovery Inc. became an independent organization. Low's three volumes of The Technique of Self-help in Psychiatric Aftercare (including "Lectures to Relatives of Former Patients") were published by Recovery, Inc. in 1943.[6][7] Recovery's main text, Mental Health Through Will-Training, was originally published in 1950.[8] During the organization's annual meeting in June 2007 it was announced that Recovery, Inc. would thereafter be known as Recovery International.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ Keogh, C.B. (1979). GROW Comes of Age: A Celebration and a Vision!, Sydney, Australia: GROW Publications.
- ↑ Sagarin, Edward (1969). "Chapter 9. Mental patients: are they their brothers' therapists?" Odd Man In: Societies of Deviants in America, 210–232, Chicago, Illinois: Quadrangle Books.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Biography of Dr. Abraham A. Low. URL accessed on 2007-10-15.
- ↑ Grosz, H. J. (1971). Self-help through Recovery, Inc. Current psychiatric therapies 11: 156–160.
- ↑ Low, Abraham A. (1936). Studies in infant speech and thought, Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois.
- ↑ Low, Abraham A. (1967). Lectures to Relatives of Former Patients, Boston, MA: The Christopher Publishing House.
- ↑ Low, Abraham A.; Recovery, Inc. (1943). The techniques of self-help in psychiatric after-care.
- ↑ Low, Abraham (1984). Mental Health Through Will Training, Willett Pub.
- ↑ (2nd Quarter 2007). Annual Meeting. Recovery Reporter 70 (2).
External links
- Works by or about Abraham Low in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Abraham Low Self-Help Systems providers of Power to Change and Recovery International
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