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S. Spafford Ackerly, M.D. (1895-1981) papers,
klghth29 S. Spafford Ackerly, M.D. (1895-1981) papers, 1910s-1981 Processed by: Archives Staff; machine-readable finding aid created by:Eric Weig University Archives and Records Center Kornhauser Health Sciences Library University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292 USA Phone: (502) 852-5771 Fax: (502) 852-5300 Email: kbjohnson@louisville.edu URL: http://louisville.edu/library/kornhauser/ Copyright 2002 University of LouisvilleLibraries. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from Access DatabaseDate of source: 02-21-02 Description is in English. S. Spafford Ackerly, M.D. (1895-1981) papers, 1910s-1981 Contact Information Kornhauser Health Sciences Library University of Louisville Louisville, Kentucky 40292 Phone: (502) 852-5771 Fax: (502) 852-5300 Email: kbjohnson@louisville.edu URL: http://library.louisville.edu/kornhauser/subpages/info/collect.html#history Processed by: Archives Staff Date Completed: n.d. Encoded by: Eric Weig Copyright 2002 University of Louisville. All Rights Reserved. Ackerly (S. Spafford), M.D. (1895-1981) papers, 1910s-1981 Ackerly, S. Spafford, 1895-1981 10 linear ft. No online items. Must visit contributing institution. University of Louisville Kornhauser Health Sciences Library Louisville, Kentucky 40292 Open to researchers The copyright interests have not been transferred to the University of Louisville. For further information, see the section on copyright in the regulations and Procedures of the Special Collections Library or consult a reference archivist. [Identification of item], S. Spafford Ackerly, M.D. (1895-1981) papers, 1910s-1981, Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville, Louisville. Health Sciences 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 late 1940s, only University of Louisville and Harvard University offered a clinical program in psychiatry for medical students for all four years. In addition to the papers an extensive oral history project conducted by Ackerly between 1960 and 1981 includes interviews with Alfred Adler's daughter Alexandra Adler, Columbia University professor of psychiatry Viola Bernard, M.D., Leon Eisenberg, M.D. of Harvard, and Lucille Jessner of Georgetown University. The collection also includes Ackerly's interviews with Leo Kanner, Karl Menninger, and George Stevenson, all pioneers in the field of child psychiatry.