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Ludwig, Alfred Oscar (1906-1986)
Biographical
Note:
Alfred Oscar Ludwig was born on March 30, 1906 in New York City.
He graduated from Harvard in 1926, with honors, and then from Harvard
Medical School, magna cum laude, in 1930. In 1932, Dr. Ludwig
went to study abroad at a medical clinic in Leipzig where he
personally experienced the Nazi takeover as Jewish physicians were
barred from clinics. Dr. Ludwig also served during WWII as a
medical officer, and served in North Africa, Italy, and Belgium, where
he also became the psychiatric consultant to the 7th Army. In 1933, he
was a resident at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) for three years,
and he also began his psychoanalytic training at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Dr. Ludwig’s main
focus was to integrate medicine and psychoanalysis. He is most
famous for his work with Rheumatoid arthritis during the 1950s, but in
1956 he left MGH to become the director of the
Psychiatric-Gynecological Clinic at Massachusetts Mental Health
Center. During this time, he also became president of BPSI from
1966-1968. Dr. Ludwig continued practicing in Boston as a
psychoanalyst until 1984 when he developed progressive
Alzheimer’s disease, which led to his death in 1986.
Summary:the
collection comprises of 11 manuscript boxes of personal papers,
lectures, handwritten
notes, correspondence, Massachusetts
Mental Health Center administrative and training records, as well as
various reprints collected and organized by Dr. Ludwig throughout his
career. BPSI Archives
also owns audio recordings and transcripts of Ludwig's nine session
interviews with
Sanford Gifford, see Oral History Interviews, audio
cassettes 421-427.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available here
Related BPSI Collections
Oral History Interviews
Oral History
Transcripts, 1961-2004
Related Sites
Alfred Ludwig's book reviews in
Psychosomatic Medicine
Alfred Ludwig's citation in PEP
Massachusetts Mental Health Center
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