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Wilbur, George B. (1887-1976)
Biographical
Note:
George Browning Wilbur was born in Larned, Kansas, in 1887. He
graduated from Harvard College (1912) and Harvard Medical School
(1916), and practiced psychiatry and analysis in Iowa and on Cape Cod.
An early member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, he
is often associated with Otto Rank, the analyst, whom Wilbur went to
see as a patient in New York and Paris. George Wilbur was a second
editor of American Imago
assuming the position after the death of its founder Hanns Sachs in
1947 and keeping it until 1963. He was the editor of Psychoanalysis and Culture
(1951), the book of essays in honor of Geza Roheim. George B. Wilbur
died in Hyannis, Massachusetts, in 1976.
Summary:
the collection comprises two boxes of 1922-1923 cases of the State
University of Iowa Psychopathic Hospital. Please note that
GeorgeWilbur's letters to Otto Rank and Ives Hendrick could be found in
the Related BPSI collections listed below. Our Oral History Transcripts
collection contains a transcript of George B. Wilbur's
interview to Sanford Gifford in 1971.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here (viewing it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Assorted
Correspondence, 1872-1996
BPSI
History Collections: 25th Anniversary
Hendrick,
Ives (1898-1972)
Oral History
Transcripts, 1961-2004
Related Sites
George B. Wilbur's entry in Dictionary of
Psychoanalysis
George B. Wilbur's entry on Answers.com
George B. Wilbur at 80 (PubMed
citation)
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