Lawrence Kolb
Lawrence Coleman Kolb | |
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| Commissioner of theNew York State Department of Mental Hygiene | |
| In office 1975–1978 | |
| Preceded by | Alan D. Miller |
| Succeeded by | James A. Prevost |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 16, 1911 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | October 20, 2006(aged 95) Orlando, Florida |
| Education | Trinity College, Dublin Johns Hopkins University |
Lawrence Coleman Kolb(June 16, 1911 – October 20, 2006) was an Americanpsychiatristwho was theNew York State Commissioner of Mental Hygienefrom 1975 to 1978.[1]
Biography
[edit]He was born in on June 16, 1911, inBaltimore, Maryland.[1]His family moved toIrelandfrom 1928 to 1931, and he attendedTrinity CollegeinDublin.He returned to the United States to attend medical school atJohns Hopkins Universityin Baltimore. Following graduation, he did residency training inpsychiatryandneurology,then considered one specialty, atStrong Memorial HospitalinRochester, New York.DuringWorld War II,he went into the Navy and was stationed aboard hospital ships and then put in charge of a clinic for "battle fatigue" inPortsmouth, New Hampshire.After the Navy, Kolb worked at theNational Institute of Mental HealthinBethesda, Maryland(where a collection of his papers are held)[2]and theMayo ClinicinRochester, Minnesota.
In 1954 Kolb was appointed chairman of the Department of Psychiatry atColumbia University Medical Centerand director of theNew York State Psychiatric Institute.Kolb oversaw numerous clinical and research advances during his 21-year tenure, the longest of any director. In 1975 Kolb left his posts at Columbia to become the New York State Commissioner of Mental Hygiene and correct abuses in the state system of mental health.
He died on October 20, 2006, inOrlando, Florida.[1]
Legacy
[edit]Kolb was strongly committed to research in psychiatry. Early in his career he did a seminal study ofphantom limbpain (see the reference below). Many years later he led a significant study on "battle fatigue" inVietnam veterans,finding thatpost-traumatic stress disordercould cause physical signs and symptoms. The research facility at New York State Psychiatric Institute is called the Lawrence C. Kolb Research Building.
His father, Lawrence Kolb (1881–1972), was also an eminent psychiatrist. Kolb Sr. pioneered the medical approach to narcotics addiction treatment and advocated treating drug addicts as patients, not criminals.
Works
[edit]- Kolb, Lawrence C.The Painful Phantom: Psychology, Physiology and Treatment.Springfield, IL: Thomas, 1954.
- Kolb, Lawrence C., ed. [et al.].Schizophrenia.Boston: Little, Brown, 1964.
- Kolb, Lawrence C., Viola W. Bernard, and Bruce P. Dohrenwend.Urban Challenges to Psychiatry: the Case History of a Response, by 14 Authors.Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.
- Kolb, Lawrence C.Modern Clinical Psychiatry.Philadelphia: Saunders, 1977.
- Kolb, Lawrence C. and Leon Roizin.The First Psychiatric Institute: How Research and Education Changed Practice.Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1993.
- Kolb, Lawrence C. co-written withJavad Nurbakhsh;and Hamideh Jahangiri;Handbook of Psychiatry Volume 18ISBN978-3-330-34295-8,at The Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany, 2019.[3]
References
[edit]- ^abcBenedict Carey (October 28, 2006)."Lawrence C. Kolb, 95, Leader In Mental Health Movement".New York Times.Retrieved2011-05-19.
Dr. Lawrence C. Kolb, a prominent mental health administrator and researcher who helped create the community mental health movement and became the public face of psychiatry for a generation of New Yorkers, died on Oct. 20 in Orlando, Fla. He was 95....
- ^"Lawrence Kolb Papers 1912-1972".National Library of Medicine.
- ^Nurbakhsh, Javad; Kolb, Lawrence C.; Jahangiri, Hamideh (2019).Handbook of Psychiatry Volume 18.Germany: Lap Lambert Academic Publishing.ISBN978-3-330-34295-8.
Further reading
[edit]- The Painful Phantom. Psychology, Physiology and Treatment. By Lawrence C. Kolb, M.D., Section of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Pp 50. 1954. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas, Publisher. Oxford, England: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
- A psychophysiological study of post traumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans. By EB Blanchard EB, LC Kolb, TP Pallmeyer TP, and RJ Gerardi. Psychiatric Quarterly 1982 Winter;54(4):220-9.
External links
[edit]- Dr. Lawrence C. Kolb: One Student’s Recollectionby Richard G. Druss, M.D. in theAmerican Journal of Psychiatry158:692-693, May 2001
- Lawrence C. Kolb, 95, Leader in Mental Health Movement,obituary by Benedict Carey inThe New York Times,Oct. 28, 2006
- Lawrence Kolb, 95, Studied Stress Disorders,obituary by Stephen Miller in theNew York Sun,Oct. 27, 2006
- Bibliography of Lawrence C. Kolb,over 90 of his publications listed by theNational Library of Medicine
- 1911 births
- 2006 deaths
- Physicians from Baltimore
- American psychiatrists
- Columbia University faculty
- Columbia Medical School faculty
- Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association
- State cabinet secretaries of New York (state)
- State health commissioners of the United States
- New York State Department of Mental Hygiene
- American expatriates in Ireland