2 100 6561 http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/376a2be3941caebb72c0f49c7048f7aa.pdf 0f9c40a5d58bade58ae853f52395ba92 PDF Text Text November 15, 1994 Dear Dr. Lasch, I recommended Norman Endler: Holiday of Darkness: A Psychologists ’s Journey Out of His Depression, originally issued in 1982 by John Wiley & Sons in hard cover, and re-issued in 1990 in soft cover by Wall & Thompson, Toronto [6 O’Connor Drive, Toronto Canada M4K 2K1]. I do not know any other testimonial that is as effective in portraying the tragedy of depression and the recovery process. It is kind of you to ask about my lecture schedule. I am scheduled to present an ‘Update’ on ECT at a professional meeting in New York at the New York Hilton Hotel on Saturday, December 3 from 11:45 to 12:30. The conference is a joint presentation of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Unfortunately, they are requesting hefty registration fees, and I am not sure that you will get your money’s worth. A more productive meeting on ECT will be held February 27-28 at the Ritz Carlton in Naples, Florida. Those sessions will be led by the nation’s leading therapists. A brochure describing the course is, as yet, not available but an inquiry can be directed to Dr. Charles Kellner at the Medical University of South Carolina [803 792-9072]. I am pleased that we were of service to your mother. I can claim little credit since her care was under the direction of my co-worker Dr. Laura Fochtmann. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/38866671a01a6a84874bc860af2d93eb.pdf f3b10a0f49d49f21096bdb021fae0899 PDF Text Text December 7, 1994 Edward Shorter, Ph.D. Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto 88 College Street Toronto, Canada MSG 1L4 Dear Dr. Shorter, In 1983, in preparation for the 50th anniversary of the ﬁrst induction of seizures for mental illness, I sought historical data from Meduna’s family [could not ﬁnd any member] and from his co-workers. One sent me a hand edited copy of an autobiography, seemingly written in response to a shorter version prepared for Marti-Ibanez, Sackler, Sackler & Sackler: The Great Physiodynamic Therapies, 1956, Hoeber-Harper, New York. The text needed much editing. As Editor of Convulsive Therapy, I published the text in the ﬁrst two numbers of Convulsive Therapy [1985; 1:43-57; 121-138]. I used this text and the shorter Marti-Ibanez et al text for my 1984 article. Another version of Meduna’s history was written by Walter Freeman, MD. in The Psychiatrist: Personalitiesand Patterns, Grune & Stratton, New York, 1968. Of the various versions, the edited autobiography rings truest. I met Meduna on a number of occasions, and was impressed by his modesty, sincerity, and appreciated him as a ‘ gentleman’ . The journal Convulsive Therapy is available at the Clarke Institute. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Shorter, Edward Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-5-081 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/42c9000ced8d162af9eab7599ef7a320.pdf 2abf4558ee3dd51fa3504ea29b0a8e4f PDF Text Text December 20, 1994 William Graettinger, MD. University of Nevada - Reno VAMC 1000 Locust Street Reno NV 89520 Dear Dr. Graettinger, I am pleased to write this letter of recommendation on behalf of your consideration of Edward Coffey, MD. for the position of Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. I have known Ed for about 8 years, ﬁrst through his research studies at Duke University , then in our association as teachers of convulsive therapy at various teaching sessions throughout the country, as editors of Convulsive Therapy, and as members of neuropsychiatric societies. Ed and I have not worked directly in research, but our common interests in neuropsychiatry, seizures, and ECT have led to many discussions. Ed is well trained in psychiatry, neurology, and neuroradiology. His record as a researcher is outstanding. He is the nation’s leader in applications of MRI technology to problems of changes in brain ﬁmction with depression, aging, ECT, and drug therapies. He has recently edited a book on neuropsychiatry and a few years ago edited a volume on advances in ECT, both for the American Psychiatric Press. He is an excellent teacher and speaker; a man of high moral character and impeccable manners. Ed is a family man; he has three children and is happily married. [I have met him and his family on numerous occasions] He is well liked by his co-workers and by his peers. He is at the right age and with the right record to consider dedicating the next few In October, when the chairman of our Department resigned, I recommended chairman. years as a Ed among three clinician/scientists to the search committee. I would be delighted if he were to join our faculty. I appreciate his record, his personality, and his dedication, and recommendhim for the position of leadership with enthusiasm. I trust these comments are helpﬁil. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Graettinger, William Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-5-080 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/bbafc025e028e113bde1d26f33b7bfa6.pdf ea06902a644e0f8b54141ccd93b1c8dc PDF Text Text January 9, 1993 Dr. H. Folkerts Klinik und Poliklinik fiir Psychiatrie Albert-Schweitzer—Strasse 11 D-4400 Munster Germany Dear Dr. Folkerts, One week fellowship courses are available at Columbia University [Harold Sackeim, Ph.D., New York State Psychiatric Institute, 722 West 168 Street, NYC 10032] and at Duke University [Richard Weiner M.D., Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine, Box 3309, Durham NC 27710]. These are formal courses, with a set syllabus. They charge a fee and provide a certificate of completion at the end of the course. At one time, we had such a course but the work was too onerous. We often have visitors who come for a day or a week or longer. We are accustomed to having visitors attend our rounds to see the patients on my service; attend the ECT sessions; and work with my ECT Fellows. The latter are directly responsible for the actual administration of the treatments and they supervise the ongoing research projects. We do not charge vistors, nor do we provide an ’official’ document of attendance. Our laboratory is equipped with the THYMATRON DG and MECTA SR-l and SR—2 ECT devices. These are brief pulse devices. Our treatments are fully monitored according to the best established standards. We also treat a number of high risk medically ill, as we are a tertiary care referral center for complicated cases. The best time to visit would be when I am ’on service’, responsible for the treatment of patients at University Hospital. I am ’on service’ in February/ March this spring, and again later this summer. If you decide to come to Stony Brook, it would be helpful to have a letter of referral or request for attendance from the director at the clinic. Thank you for your interest. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-4-079 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/050f862d88da7566f71759ca325e43dd.pdf 13827b1f21e3deb002a206100a10405b PDF Text Text Ma April 3, 1993 Barbara Melisch, M.D. Universitatsklinik fiJr Psychiatrie Auenbruggerplatz 22 A-8036 GRAZ, Austria Dear Dr. Melisch, For reasons that are outside our control, regret to say that we are unable to accept a Fellow in ECT for the coming year. I Thank you for your interest, and my regards. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology �Post-It" brand fax transmittal memo 7671 lilo! pages T° Fm“ Mai): Fr 32' E). HEusui rt ' l mt Co. Co. Dept. Phone # szxv43~31¢-38§-55I6 Fax # 5M: KM. 8604 “Ca/oy— February 13, 1993 Barbara Melisch, M.D. Universitatsklinik fiJr Psychiatrie Auenbruggerplatz 22 A-8036 GRAZ, Austria Dear Dr. Melisch, This letter is in response to your inquiry regarding a fellowship at this University for 1993-1994. Ordinarily, our committees have their budgest assigned and have made their decision by this date. This year, however, the University budgets have not yet been assigned, and i am writing to tell you that a ﬁnal decision will not be made until the end of April. I difficult. recognize that such a delay is frustrating and makes any planning My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psuchiatry �August 26, 1992 Barbara Melisch, M.D. Universitatsklinik fUr Psychiatrie Auenbruggerplatz 22 A-8036 GRAZ, Austria Dear Dr. Melisch, We received your letter of application for a fellowship in psychiatry and the supporting material. Thank you. The file is as complete for the present as we need. The Fellowship committee will consider the application in the late winter and announcements of awards are made in early February for the next academic year which begins in July, 1993. Before the end of this year, you will receive additional inquiries and advice about your application for a suitable visa from our Training Office. understand that such an application will have to be made by yourself in Austria. I look forward to seeing you in Munich. Hopefully, will have more information at that time. I I . ' Have a good holiday. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psuchiatry the f’/ l/ 5 ”4/ / a) ' I/ﬂ/[ �August 26, 1992 Barbara Melisch, M.D. Universitatsklinik ftir Psychiatrie Auenbruggerplatz 22 A-8036 GRAZ, Austria Dear Dr. Melisch, We received your letter of application for a fellowship in psychiatry and the supporting material. Thank you. The file is as complete for the present as we need. The Fellowship committee will consider the application in the late winter and announcements of awards are made in early February for the next academic year which begins in July, 1993. Before the end of this year, you will receive additional inquiries and advice about your application for a suitable visa from our Training Office. understand that such an application will have to be made by yourself in Austria. I look forward to seeing you in Munich. Hopefully, will have more information at that time. I I Have a good holiday. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psuchiatry wW - ( 4% M // - _ % -— /r/ Llag‘e‘r’ ’z. (0?” FM” / �July 3, 1992 Barbara Melisch, M.D. Universitatsklinik fiJr Psychiatrie Auenbruggerplatz 22 A-8036 GRAZ, Austria Dear Dr. Melisch, Thank you for your inquiry about research opportunities in our Department. Each year we offer fellowships to qualified candidates in consultation & liaison, sleep disorders, ECT and psychopharmacology, and child psychiatry. If you specifically wish to work with my team, the fellowship ECT and psychopharmacology would be appropriate. in Please send me a new letter requesting consideration for a specific fellowship, effective July 1, 1993, describing what experience you seek. if possible (and know it is difficult), the note should specify why you seek U.S. training. [e.g., to undertake a specific research project; or for general research experience to allow you to return to Austria and an academic career; or for greater exposure to US. clinical experience; etc. If you have a specific project in mind, would you include a few paragraphs describing the project?] I We will also need the following information: - curriculum vitae copy of ECFMG and any other certificates of training in English copy of certificate of any post-M.D.training. Zapotocky (or other senior psychiatrist) would describe your education and experience. It would be particularly helpful if the letter would suggest what expectations are held for the additional training. It would be useful if Dr. This reads like a lot to do but application for a fellowship. My regards to Dr. it will be useful to support your Zapotocky. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. PRofessor of Psuchiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Melisch, Barbara Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-4-073 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/3a223603e9b7cb103d77f8052ae5c2a2.pdf 07dff742552ec257bf1dd62cf97cdb89 PDF Text Text April 23, 1993 Captain Richard Pico, MC, USAF Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base, TX 78236-5300 Dear Rich, Thank you for your very nice letter of April 5. You should apply to NARSAD for a startup grant for your first-break psychosis study. would be glad to support your application and provide the needed letter as mentor/advisor. However, it would be better if your sponsor were someone in San Antonio or at a neighboring city in Texas. The reviewers are aware that distance is a deterrant to useful interaction. Ray Faber should be supportive; if not, A. John Rush at Dallas is a good friend and would get the two of you together if you are willing to get to Dallas. [If you have another sponsor, will gladly write a supporting letter.] I I I am not sure what is best for your third year time, since do not recall the constraints. The brain imaging laboratory at UT is at the forefront of a national brain imaging database collection program, and am impressed that if you came to master the techniques described at the ANA meeting, you would be doing yourself an excellent service -- both for your science and for any clinical future. I I I As for EEG, much good work has been done, but the neurologists and electrophysiologists have a less sanguine image of EEG brain imaging than do I. Newer methods, like MRI, PET, and SPECT are flashier. Newer methods get more industrial and academic support [there is more money in MRI, CAT than EEG]. Perhaps, the clinicians are correct, and we have reached the limit of what can be learned in an individual case from scalp recording. do not believe that we have reached the limit of EEG as a scientific brain imaging tool -- it is so I responsive to set and emotional change, so easily and safely recorded, so easily quantified, and so much has already been done to relate EEG change to behavior. can see no harm in getting to read EEG records by the usual page turning methods; at the least, it will provide a source of income should you wish to continue such work in practice. I Call me any late afternoon or evening at my home-office: 516 862 6651 and we can discuss this further. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/1b9547e66a975493c8ac10d28fcd9829.pdf c61c617f1327d6e809764016f0c600b7 PDF Text Text May 10, 1993 Kenneth R. Kaufman, MD. 8635 West Third Street, Suite 985W Los Angeles, CA 90048 Dear Dr. Kaufman, Thank you for the excellent case summary of your patient with seizure disorder and surgical lesion with suicidal ideation warranting ECT. look forward to the outcome. I am not sanguine about a position at this University but am willing to send your records for review in our Departments. Please send a copy of your c.v. and three or so reprints that may be useful. [The case report was incomplete-- only page 51 was enclosed] I trained in I Dr. Janowsky at UNC in Chappel Hill is advertising for ECT. You may wish to write to him. someone Good luck with your patient. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-4-071 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/38f7c751658fa3a5701ae50b2e4576c2.pdf 6b1690a89c0fc5db05f0b8aa5a979ac3 PDF Text Text May 8, 1993 Committee on Ethics American Psychological Association 1200 Seventeenth Street, NW; Room 406 Washington, DC. 20036 Gentlemen: am writing in response to the complaint of improper ethics charged by Ms. Linda Andre against Professor Harold Sackeim of Columbia University. I am acquainted with the professional activities of Dr. Sackeim for more than a decade. participated in the symposium on ECT which he organized at the New York Academy of Sciences in 1985; we worked together on the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on Electroconvulsive Therapy, 1988-1990; and he has been an invaluable member of the Editorial Board of the journal Convu/sive Therapy since its inauguration in 1985. I I date of the complaint, the ECT review course under the auspices of CME, Inc. chaired that course and was responsible for inviting Dr. Sackeim and for planning the course. With regard to the cited location and I am personally acquainted with Ms. Linda Andre. first became aware of her activities when was asked to be an expert witness for defendants in a malpractice suit in which she alleges that she received ECT without proper consent, that the diagnosis was erroneous, and that she has been left with permanent memory lacunae for events over her whole lifespan. In reviewing this case, have read the hospital record, including summaries of her prior psychiatric hospitalizations; her record of suicidality and psychosis; her deposition and that of her treating therapists; as well as supporting documentation. I I I I On the occasion of the course in which Dr. Sackeim is alleged to have lied, Ms. Andre took the microphone during the question period, harangued me for my failure to acquiesce to her statements that memory loss was permanent. During this time, she stood with a large covered object, and when failed to answer her queries, she marched up to the platform and placed a large black skillet with an animal’s brain in it; the brain was lying on a bed of dollar bills. I �American Psychopathological Association Page 2 When gave a public lecture before the SUNY History of Medicine the history of the anti-psychiatry movement, Ms. Andre attended and on group again argued with me about her rights as a patient, and my failure to credit her brain damage or to acknowledge that she had been assaulted by physicians. I She travelled to an international meeting on ECT in Graz, Austria. As chairman of the first session, called for questions after presentations on the practice of ECT in Europe. She took the floor and again challenged me for my lack of interest in her memory problems and those of other patients whom she alleges had been assaulted by psychiatrists. I On the specific allegations made in her complaint, I find these fabricated and the result of her pathological imagination and thoughts. In response to inquiries from the audience, Professor Sackeim described events in his practice which reflected the problems of the intrusiveness of the antipsychiatry advocates. He did not mention Ms. Andre by name, nor did he specify any individual. Her association that the description referred to her is a paranoid identification, and is consistent with her psychopathology. On the more general complaints, the present effort at harassment is part of her present life activity as the leader of the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry. Ms. Andre dedicates her life to challenging psychiatrists, and particularly those interested in convulsive therapy. Her legal suit has not been adjudicated, and she seeks adjudication in the public arena before that in the legal arena. urge the APA to hold Dr. Sackeim blameless and return the challenge to Ms. Andre with an appropriate admonition. I Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Editor, Convulsive Therapy Member, APA Task Forces on ECT, 1975-1978; 1988-1990 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: on Ethics Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-4-069 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/3c2cd7e05377ae12e1e4211cc3d65041.pdf 6eb46b31eaf8c79a975795ecf12265bf PDF Text Text June 10, 1993 Dr. John Little H&CS Lakeside Hospital Gillies Street PO Box 63 Ballarat 3353 Victoria, Australia Dear Dr. little, It is not clear why you sent the proposed guidelines for ECT to me. The best U.S guidelines are those proposed by theAmerican Psychiatric Association Task Force in its 1990 report Electroconvulsive Therapy: Recommendationsfor Treatment, Training and Privileging (APA Press, Washington DC.) or the 1992 text written by Richard Abrams (Electroconvulsive Therapy, Oxford University Press, 1992). Both contain the present consensus in the US. regarding all the questions you summarize in your report. I attach some speciﬁc comments on your document, which may be idiosyncratic with me and my team. There is no experience to warrant or justify any speciﬁc decisions regarding pulse width or frequency in treatment efﬁcacy. Swartz makes claims about duration, arguing that some brief pulse trains at 4 to 8 seconds are more eﬁ‘icient (more effective?) than the short trains of the MECTA. There is evidence that total energy (mC) is a factor in efficacy when unilateral electrode placement is used. For my part, we are dedicated to the THYMATRON device which allows changes in energy and duration. When we use the MECTA device, we use the SR—2 as the more facile of the MECTA devices. In the US, it is no longer acceptable to undertake ECT without EEG monitoring; we would no more think of unmonitored ECT than we would think of unmodiﬁed (no anesthetic) ECT. �Page 2 I have not been to Australia, and would probably be pleased to come if the arrangements were suitable. Much of what I know about modern ECT comes from articles in Convulsive Therapy, the quarterly journal now in its ninth year of publication. I do not think you know it in Australia -perhaps you could subscribe and educate your peers. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Editor �Page 3 Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Medical Guide page 1: In discussing theories, why not cite the neurohumoral and the GABA-ergic hypotheses? These are detailed in Convulsive Therapy (vol 5, #3, September 1989). page 2: Why is catatonia cited among both psychiatric and non-psychiatric reasons for ECT? And what makes the non-psychiatric 'controversial'. For catatonia, if benzodiazepines are not effective in a few days, ECT is clearly justiﬁed even in catatonia secondary to systemic disorders (lupus, typhoid, NMS). The contraindiCations are not consistent with the APA discussion. We no longer accept any absolute contraindication. We now approach each case with a risk/beneﬁt analysis, and if ECT is commanded by the psychiatric conditon, no systemic condition is seen as a contraindication. page 3: ECT was not the ﬁrst effective treatment for mental illness; it was believed to be effective for dementia praecox and that was its novelty. Inanition and manic delirium are conditions that should be added to the list. We would not accept the statement that the anesthetist decides whether a patient is ﬁt for ECT. That is the psychiatrist's decision; the anesthetist is to do his best with what is given to him, much as he has to do with traumatic or non-elective surgery. (When ECT is compelled by a patient's illness, it is not elective.) page 4: It is too sanguine to say that permanent brain damage does not occur. At times, as a result of poor techinique, a prolonged seizure is not recognized, an airway is not maintained and a permanent dementia ensues. You can say that 'permanent structural brain damage does not occur under usual treatment schedules'. page 5: A common problem is post-seizure agitation or delirium. For consent for ECT, we usually insist that a 'signiﬁcant other' to the patient consent as well as the patient. �Page 4 page 7: I believe fractures occurred in T10, not T5. Pre—oxygenation does not reduce the seizure threshold unless you have evidence not in our literature. The eﬁicacy/ energy relationships are restricted to unilateral electrode placements. Brief pulse currents produce less cognitive impairment than alternating currents. page 9: I cannot believe you mean 2780 amperes -- perhaps milliamperes? Any reference to the electric chair in an ECT document is pejorative. Delete it. page 10. AT this late date, you cannot be serious in stating that the observer can tell when a seizure starts or ends in ECT when patients are effectively paralyzed and asleep. In our studies in 1980-81, we showed that cuff monitoring and EEG monitoring were essential. By 1987-90, we became convinced that EEG monitoring was essential, mainly as a protection against missing a prolonged seizure. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Little, John Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-067 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/48af4534c3a2bc3e83f79ce50305e8cf.pdf 191dfe5261fafd5409e7babc426b1215 PDF Text Text % m/ﬂ June 16, 1993 Robert T. McQueeney, MD. 1110 Tenth Avenue Menominee, Ml 49858 Dear Bob, Thank you for the copy of your letter to John Greden. The request is rather clear, but to whom do you wish his comments sent? Is it to you? Attached is another such note, addressed to you, which you may submit to the appropriate boards in Michigan. Good luck in your efforts. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: McQueeney, Robert T. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-065 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f4bfefb992926dc24c5f8bd09be5e9c4.pdf 78533c571fbfffc39d49f8153797e237 PDF Text Text June 16, 1993 Markus Gastpar, MD. Direktor der Klinik ﬁir Allgemeine Psychiatrie Hufelandstrasse 55 4300 Essen 1 Germany Dear Markus, It was good to see you again in San Francisco. As the enclosed preprint will show, I took your advice and asked my co-worker to complete her report which will now be published in the September number of Convulsive Therapy. I thought you would like to see a copy before it is printed. Our experience with maintenance ECT continues, and for the most part, we now believe that such continuation treatment is an important addition to our treatment program. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Gastpar, Markus Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-064 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/964043eb5c74c880746dacee6aa2e41d.pdf 280f38fdab93d25ae0e7170ee5b995d3 PDF Text Text July 8, 1993 G. Northoff, M.D., Ph.D. Zentrum der Psychiatrie Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Heinrich-Hofmann—Str. 10 6000 Frankfurt am Main 71, Germany Dear Dr. Northoff, In response to your letter of June 17: We occasionally appoint Fellows for post-residency training and research. These appointments are usually made from our own graduates, but about half the positions are given to trainees from other programs. For those interested in clinical research, we require the satisfactory completion of the ECFMG examination, and a visa which will permit the candidate's stay in the US. This is usually the J-1 Visa which is issued on the request of the University. A letter of application, accompanied by a copy of your curriculum vitae, and a statement of your ECFMG status (Passed, date; or, scheduled examination date) will start the application process. The letter should indicate the date on which you anticipate a willingness to begin training, the duration of your willingness to take such training, and your social status (married or single) and dependents. We are actively involved in research in catatonia. These are under the supervision of my associate, Dr. Andrew Francis. Our prospective study of incidence and our rating scale developments are being written for submission for publication this summer. We are continuing these studies and are developing a prospective study of the biology of catatonia. We hope to have a protocol completed and submitted for funding by the early fall. Thank you again for your interest. Let me know how we can be of ﬁirther help. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Northoff, Georg Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-063 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/af740e98144d028e26e5fec2d40615a4.pdf afc1227c0db6f6fb5249948d79152e7a PDF Text Text September 11, 1993 Mr. Ivan Schick ElCoT 14 East 60th Street; Suite 1207 New York, NY. 10022 Dear Ivan, I had a very ﬁne lunch with Dick Glabers and Bob Ewing (we met at the Mirabelle, our **** restaurant near my home). Their questions were mainly about the present status of ECT as a practice; the impact of health care changes on ECT practice; the relative strengths [and weaknesses] of the present devices and their manufacturers, and the [my] experience with the ElCoT devices. I do not know whether I was of some help to them (or to you), but we did agree that if another device were to come to market, the manufacturer (or the manufacturers together) would probably need to develop an educational program for both psychiatrists, generalists, and the public on ECT in order to expand the market for ECT devices. In any case, we missed you. Call me when you return from Turkey and we can discuss their ideas. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Schick, Ivan Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-059 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/14b075b9edf666c7c155c2e489076550.pdf 802b946ccef9a24803f864c09c1b4540 PDF Text Text September 13, 1993 I») Dr. B. Verﬁey Ziekenhuis Rijnstate Postbus 9555; 6800 TA Arnhem The Netherlands Dear Dr. Vervey, What a pleasure to receive such a happy follow-up on your case of lethal catatonia. I was happy to be of help, and am doubly delighted that the results were so welcome and that you will be writing it up. Yes, I would very much like to read the report when it is published, but you could send me a preprint before publication if that is delayed. There is increased interest in catatonia in the US. and Canada, and your would be of interest to this group of investigators. experience With regard to electro-acupuncture, I know of no follow—up reports. Surely, none have been presented in the Western literature. A few years ago, Dr. Xue wrote that he was coming to the US. and I tried to arrange a meeting but that fell through. I have kept his papers in a travel folder in my ﬁle, hoping to visit China, but have not done so. What is clearly needed is for a Western trained psychiatrist, with some skills in ECT, to observe the procedures in China and assess whether actual grand mal seizures occur; their characteristics; a measure of the cognitive effects immediately aﬁer a seizure and one—day and one week after a series of treatments; and EEG measures during the seizure and 24 hours after 6 ECT or the end of a series. Such information will provide an impetus to replication in the West. Have a good trip to the US. and keep up the good work. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Verwey, B. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-058 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/0203b44849c8616f2734ef9a1afc941d.pdf 4a478b214324d5018e6223a3897161f4 PDF Text Text 9W State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine — Department of Psychiatry Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry PO. Box 457 St. James, New York 11780 Phone: 516 4442929 516 862-6651 September 21’ 1993 Fax: 516 862-8604 Mr. Marty Madison Quest Publishing Co. Brea CA 92621 Dear Mr. Madison, Thank you for sending me the DHEW announcement in the Federal Register regarding the FDA classiﬁcation of Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulators. Yes, these devices are the same as we assessed in the early 19605. It was the reports of RB. Smith in the 19805 that led the US. Army physicians to examine the advisability of reimbursing CHAMPUS personnel for such treatments that led to my review. My library contains two volumes which cite such research. Reynolds DV, Sjoberg AE (Eds): Neuroelectric Research: Electroprosthesis, Electroanesthesia and Nonconvulsive Electrotherapy. C.C Thomas, Springﬁeld, 1971, 466 pp. Wulfsohn NL, Sances A. (Eds): The Nervous System and Electric Currents, Plenum Press, New York, 1971, 171 pp. Another set of data can be found in the literature of convulsive therapy under the term 'subconvulsive shock' or 'nonconvulsiveelectric stimulation' or 'electrosleep'. A good source for such experience is to be found in two old texts: Alexander L: Treatment ofMental Disorder. W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1953, 507 pp. Kalinowsky L, Hoch P: Somatic Treatments in Psychiatry, Grune & Stratton, New York, 1961 [or earlier editions]. I would like to read your report when it is published. Thank you for keeping me informed. M Sincerely yo Post-lt‘" brand fax transmittal memo 7671 l#of pages > To From xy “/ka Map/lam ‘1 Dept Fax"7/4 525 5257— C, Max / kw" PM“ #974 +144 PM 574— 4514 ‘ / 29% 7534 3, Max Fink , M.D Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology . � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Madison, Marty Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-057 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/c0f22526fe221fccaf8926ba7eb19030.pdf a42451aca6952c651d317a8c94fa6fb0 PDF Text Text School of Medicine . D epartment or PSychIatry and Behavioral Science . September 23, 1993 Medical New Mexico Board of PO. Box 20001 Santa Fe, NM 87504 Examiners ' Gentlemen: William Turner for the application of Dr. of in support Bill for more writing I am Mexico. I have known New of State the in medicine then as a researcher at the Island, licensure to practice in Long clinician psychiatrist member in the than 40 years, ﬁrst as a 1973, as a fellow faculty since ﬁnally, and Central Islip Psychiatric Center, School of Medicine. at our Department of Psychiatry who have dedicated cadre of patients with a clinician, them Bill is an outstanding and has been honored by groups support in patient active is with special interests in the been helped by him. He researcher, outstanding communit He is an as a leader in our and in psychopharmacology. genetics of mental illness maintained continuing active, alert, and has Despite his age, Bill is and students. relationships with the faculty . without reservation. I commend him to you Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology A :7 I” I , CASELLES New York Count-y Suiiolk No. 5.6775616. luly 31. 19 Term wires DCROTHY L. 01 791101-10. State NOTARY State University of New York at Sto 11794-810:1y Stony Brook, New York 516-444-2990 Fax: 516-444-7534 BFOOk � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/78f83c4bfe6117be28660bffd042d5ac.pdf 7c3d5bee89082eed30b9331e5e534790 PDF Text Text State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine —— Department of Psychiatry Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry PO. Box 457 St. James, New York 1780 Phone: 516 444-2929 516 862—6651 Fax: 516 862-8604 1 September 22, 1993 Dr. Douglas Glover Department of Psychiatry University of alberta Hospitals Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Dear Dr. Glover, Permission is hereby given to dupliicate and distribute to your students copies of the report " How does convulsive therapy work? from the journal Neuropsychopharmacology [1990; 3:73-82] and my "Response to critiques Neuropsychopharmacology [ 1 990; 3 :97- 1 00]. Subscriptions to Convulsive Therapy may be obtained either directly from the publishers (Raven Press, 1185 Avenue of the Americas, New York City 10036) or by membership in the Association for Convulsive Therapy. Membership dues includes a subscription to the journal. Membership information can be obtained from Dr. Donald Hay, Executive Director (1221 South Grand Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63104). I hope the students enjoy the report. Wide Sincerely you , Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Post-WM To Co. Q” brand fax transmittal memo 9% 0 £40 Ve/ Dept. F3” #3 1792 am From 7671 |#of pages > / 044x [TM/,4 Co. Phone#.57é_ Xéz'ééf/ 43%” Fa” 57¢ 0’ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Glover, Douglas Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-055 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/cef1ed652e4b2febf9e5da2f51505f5e.pdf e27878c1985832cdb2335274433936af PDF Text Text October 21, 1993 Captain Richard M. Pico, M.D. USAF MC Wilford Hall Medical Center (AETC) Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base, TX 78236-5300 Dear Rich, Thank you for your recent letter keeping me informed of your research. The imaging work is interesting and you are to be congratulated on the drive. Such imaging studies are becoming increasingly important in psychiatric research. I understand that Dr. Edward Coffey has been invited to be a Visiting Professor at Wilford Hall. You should discuss your proposals with him as he has done the most elegant MRI/ECT and MRI/depression studies. His facility in Pittsburgh may interest you when you leave the air Force. there. I do not plan to attend the Neuroscience meetings, so we cannot meet I was in Austin last week, lecturing at St. David's Rehabilitation center. In the face of the new Texas legislation forbidding ECT in anyone under the age of 16 [even with parental and patient consent], there was a brouhaha at the sessions, with Scientology pickets in front of the hospital and 3 disruptionists in the audience. Good luck in your work. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-054 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/e9ab8603433bc2adccc7d24795ced3a0.pdf 629ce2a1d7f006672b98519c049f7721 PDF Text Text Post-It” brand fax transmittal memo :15}ngJaw/m :mm 7671 |#of pages > ”763% g ﬁn!» phonetm W51 2%, Fax#[%/Z é’Zﬁ/ Z)/¢yFax#5/é 9V</~7J’39‘ ' % Dept. , ,ﬁc _ , is . NYB (I) Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science November 5, 1993 Sam Gershon, MD. University of Pittsburgh School of- Medicine Pittsburgh, PA Dear Sam, Attached is a formal answer to your inquiry, with some citations. There are other excellent reports which use the same methodology, and I can supply a more detailed list if you require it. The citations selected -- Lerer, Brandon, Sackeim -— represent our best scientiﬁc efforts of the recent decade. My best to Lisl. Sincerely yours, ﬂair/7 Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 1'] 794—8l01 516—444—2990 Fax: 516-444—7534 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Gershon, Samuel Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-053 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f5f8ab192d9d22e57a1ce62ed52b521e.pdf cca0cff7a0d6463ee06676939fad7f4a PDF Text Text MM December 18, 1993 Ms. Lynne Mascarella CME Oﬂice U. Arizona Health Sciences Center Tucson, AZ 85724 Dear Ms. Mascarella, I am pleased to permit the use of my report in the Acta Psychiatr Scand. for your CME course in February. The ideas in that report have been updated, however, by a presentation in Paris in January. That report, titled “Optimizing ECT” is now in press in L ’Encephale. I enclose a copy for your use, suggesting that this draﬁ is more up to date and of greater interest to your students. The main point of difference is in the thorny question of whether repeated threshold determination is necessary or indeed safe. Good luck in your course, and my bets regards to Dr. Gelenberg. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Mascarella, Lynne Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-050 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/2fe075c950cd1d55e39435ec456f0536.pdf 751be4a627af68a438b7454a90f192aa PDF Text Text December 27, 1993 TO: F aroukh Maneksha George Petrides From: Max Fink Subject: Follow—up on trimethaphan study Now that the dose range of trimethaphan has been deﬁned, we should use a similar design to study the relative efficacy [and safety] of a beta-blocker compared to trimethaphan. Attached is the output of abstracts from a search of the ECT Database for the substances labetalol, esmolol, and nitroglycerine, post-1987. Would you review these and select one as a contrast for trimethaphan? Can you define a-commonly used dose? Is there a design that you favor? � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Maneksha, Faoukh Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-3-049 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f74c305cd945f49c18ba0ed63945ccc6.pdf 401160c57ed4e40fb6ca3419de212b43 PDF Text Text July 13, 1992 Jonathan 0. Cole, MD. Director, McLean Affective Disorders Program McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street Belmont MA 02178-9106 Dear Jon, We seem to have gotten the same bug pharmaco-EEG -- at the same time and we seem not to be able to get over it. I, too, believe that pharmacoEEG methods have not had the applications to which they lend themselves, especially as the initial evaluation of potential new psychoactive compounds, nor in the management of treatment courses, especially of therapy resistant patients. The IPEG sessions in Boca Raton in May were a good sample of our present experience. Unfortunately, except for some work in pharmacokinetics of benzodiazepines by Greenblatt, and of opioids and anesthetics by anesthesiologists, little has been added to our theoretic or functional knowledge since the spate of NIMH/PSC supported studies between 1959 and 1975. These studies developed the main algorithms for data reduction which are still in use today. The main difference between 1990’s and the 1970’s is in the speed of data reduction, ability to record and analyze multi-lead inputs (compared to our single and 2-channel analyses), and the sharp reduction in costs; so much so that practically any academic laboratory can do superior (to 19705) recording, data reduction, and data analyses for under $15,000 for 4 to 8 channels. -— Unfortunately, the theoretic underpinnings remain the same as at that time. And, many of the applications which we recognized as useful and feasible, [and which are even more feasible today], have never had adequate trials. Further, the present loyalty to the neuroscience reductionist belief structure [which so dominates the ACNP, SBP, NIMH, and many academic psychiatric departments] rejects any human recording studies as too gross. The main exception are the polysomnographers with their activity in medical physiology and the idiosyncratic, essentially impractical, sleep EEG studies of Kupfer. A few years ago I summarized my experience with pharmaco-EEG in a which was not published. From time to time I have gone back to it, and I report enclose an incomplete draft, dated October 1991. On another occasion, I was asked to review some reports by Herrmann which he submitted to the journal Pharmacopsychiatry. I wrote an editorial that accompanied the papers. Finally, I enclose a historical review which was published in 1984 which provides a basis for our present knowledge. �J. 0. Cole Pharmaco-EEG Page 2 At the IPEG meeting in May, the applications of QEEG for pharmacokinetics was well demonstrated. Its use in pharmacodynamic studies in man was suggested, but there are few new studies such as Peter Irwin and I did two decades ago. The industrial laboratories are apparently funding quantitative pharmaco-EEG studies in various species. The pharmacologists are enthusiastic that they can identify our present list of human psychoactive drugs, but they have few examples of new compounds that have an identifiable pharmaco-EEG profile in an animal species which helped in the clinical study of the compound. [I am not impressed that this expenditure has much merit; rats, mice, dogs, and cats are quite distinct in their pharmacology from man (indeed, mice have been bred to be remarkably sensitive and insensitive to a host of CNS active compounds) and it is pure happenstance when a compound has an EEG effect in an animal that is predictive of its EEG pattern or sensitivity or clinical activity in man] As for multi-lead recordings (such as the BEAM), these have not been more helpful than single lead recordings in man. Herrmann and Coppola undertook detailed analyses of multi-lead recordings of compounds which had been classified by classical single channel recordings. Their findings were no more useful than what was already known, at much greater expense. There are some authors who argue that localized EEG changes should occur and they hope that such differences will have predictive merit. But, so far, the data are very weak. With that introduction, I will answer your questions as best as I can. 1. The enclosed papers are a good beginning. Get the issue of Phannacopsychiatry 24 (Nov):196-225, 1991. The three reports by Herrmann show what can be done with pharmaco-EEG studies. 2. The best citations for the relation between EEG changes and clinical response are cited in my report in progress. 3. Few studies fund pharmaco—EEG studies. I was recently contacted by Tetsushi Inada, Ph.D. (Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co. Ltd., 599 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2780, New York City 10022). They have an antihistaminic compound and are seeking ways to define its central activity. They were impressed by our 1979 report of the EEG study of terfenadine and diphenhydramine (Phamtakopsych. NeuroPsychophannakologie 12:35—44). I sent them to Kurt Itil and have not had a follow-up. 4. I am always willing to visit McLean. It might be useful to arrange a Grand Rounds on pharmaco-EEG. I recently gave a talk for the neurologists: PharmacoEEG: Science or Pseudo-Science. Dr. Vasile should visit Itil in Tarrytown and get an idea of which directions he is taking this technique. Turan and Kurt are quite hospitable and seem willing to show off their techniques. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-048 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/5a628705c7ab5f887f4f2f6203f18171.pdf 1a2060ee4789a32280673bdb05e07f81 PDF Text Text July 14, 1992 William T. Donner, M.D. Abington Memorial Hospital Abington, PA 19001 Dear Dr. Donner, The concern with ’informed consent’ for ECT was first reviewed by the the 1978 Task Force report. It was reviewed again in its 1990 report. in both, a balance between the facts as known and the mis-perceptions of the public were considered. Memory complaints are mostly reported by patients who have not improved with treatment. Objective evidence of memory impairment is rare, especially in the past decade with the introduction of the routine use of continuous ventilation with oxygen, brief pulse currents, graded electrical dosing, selective electrode placement, variations in frequency of treatments, and duration of course. We have also come to realize that the usual associated treatments, like lithium, benzodiazepines, and tricyclic antidepressants, which are often used as continuation treatments, do themselves impair cognition and memory functions. APA in The best documentation of the present state of knowledge on long term effects of ECT is found in the 1990 APA Task Force report, and in the second edition of E/ectroconvu/sive Therapy by Richard Abrams (Oxford University Press, New York, 1992). The older experience is best summarized in Convu/s/ve Therapy: Theory and Practice which wrote (Raven Press, New York, 1979) and the first APA Task Force report (#14, APA, Washington, DC, 1978). Each publication contains a useful model consent form. I Much of the concern with memory effects of ECT is sustained in the public by the hysteria of the Church of Scientology. Present concerns are not with the form, but with the consent process. Many clinicians now use a videotape describing the ECT procedure to educate the patients and their family. Commercial videotapes are available from Somatlcs and from MECTA, the principal manufacturers of modern brief pulse ECT devices. published A lengthy consideration of competency to in Convu/sive Therapy (8292-102, 1992). consent was recently Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Editor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-047 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/18c72645da62f1b0694c7ed3dbe34fc4.pdf 0eaf5dd626213bf174bd1db05a396854 PDF Text Text July 17, 1992 Walter Sannita, M.D. Institute for Neurophysiopathology University Hospital San Martino I-16132 GENOA Italy Dear Walter, would interpret the letter of Dr. Gary Rosenberg as an exploratory invitation, a statement that he is willing to explore a relationship and the development of funding. He clearly does not say that he has an opening and that you should make a formal application for it. I his third paragraph, he asks for a proposal (it would be helpful if you would be more specific) in which you specify your needs (= a project description with the usual format of aims, background, methods, personnel and equipment needs, and a budget). He also asks whether you see yourself as a pure researcher or whether ’these could be combined with some clinical activities, either teaching or patient care as a visiting professor’. If he is to find funds, he anticipates that it is easier to support someone who provides clinical services for which reimbursement and support is possible. In He is asking whether you have passed the ECFMG qualifying examination which would permit him to seek a clinical appointment for you. He seems to depend on the collaboration of Dr. Okada. in you brought your own funds, he would have little difficulty developing a project. Of course, if Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry F:\lPEG\SANNlTA\19-UNNM.GAR � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sannita, Walter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-045 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/133c186e3a73d0d2b267ddc84c5490f9.pdf 904675e3482cb6fb7ff512bd96250432 PDF Text Text July 17, 1992 DearJana, Thank you for the articles on bibliographic software. do wish that could transfer from Scimate, but it works well enough. just took a course in EMBASE and found, to my chagrin, that there are many more articles in ECT in journals not indexed by MEDLINE than had thought. Unfortunately, EMBASE is quite expensive, both in search time and in downloading citations. But had to begin and downloaded citations for 1991-92 that did not have in MEDLINE. I I I I I i am often asked why Convulsive Therapy is not indexed in MEDLlNE, and can only answer that the MEDLINE review board makes its decisions in its own way (like NlH Committees?). But Convulsive Therapy is indexed in many other indices, and all can do is to urge readers to seek citation lists outside I I MEDLINE. incidentally, the last citation list contains a review of ECT in Czechoslovakia. Their therapist are also male chauvinist pigs, shocking women more often than men! But they seem to either have a different appreciation of the efficacy of ECT in schizophrenia than we do [or their diagnostic criteria are different]. assume the difference is probably the latter reason. I Let’s get together soon. My best to Vojta. Max � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: ?, Jana Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-043 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/0a3d498e874e5306bfbb063789524a59.pdf 5c0a5c46a20e12796193df9f1c6f43dc PDF Text Text July 31, 1992 Ms. Mary DiCicco Nepperhan Avenue Hastings-on-Hudson ll New York 10706 Dear Ms. DiCicco, Thank you for the copy of the textbook Psychology: Boundaries and Frontiers by Buskist and Gerbing. As read the text, recalled the many years in which collaborated with experimental and clinical psychologists, the years that held membership in the American Psychological Association, and the many meetings of psychologists at which or my associates presented our research. But that is so far back in history. I I I I I read the section on somatic treatments in this textbook and was not surprised by the outdated, anti-psychiatry views of the authors. It verified my caution (and surprise) at your invitation. I I am not the man for the job. can recommend two outstanding experimental ’card-carrying’ psychologists with excellent credentials in electroconvulsive therapy. Both have been or are members of the Editorial Board of Convu/sive Therapy. I Harold Sackeim is Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the principal investigator of the two largest NIMH supported programs in ECT research, and a member of NIMH committees. He has the capacity and the staff to develop as fine a demonstration as you may wish. He can be reached at 212 950 5855. Helen Pettinati is Director of Research at the Carrier Clinic in Belle Mead, New Jersey. She is the author of numerous excellent ECT reports; a collaborator in a large NIMH sUpported clinical study with Dr. Sackeim; and has the staff and capacity to develop the product you need. She can be reached at 201 874 4000 (Research Department). Good luck in your efforts. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: DiCicco, Mary Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-038 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a573f6ce1ca6a3da8e54c62c4e3df499.pdf 169938da1c472c0dfbb44fc875883964 PDF Text Text August 14, 1992 Morton Miller, MD. Lahey Clinic Medical Center 41 Mall Road Burlington MA 01851 Dear Mort, When attended the Medical School graduation exercises this year, was aware that we had failed to attract any of our own students to our residency in psychiatry. noted that there were a number of prizes awarded graduates for excellence in various subjects, but none for excellence in psychiatry. I l I thought that we should develop a prize for excellence in clinical psychiatry, associated that Satn had done an excellent job in establishing a fine program, and discussed the development of a "Stanley Yolles Prize Award" with the associate Dean for student affairs, Dr. Gardner. He encouraged me to proceed. I would require the collection of some funds from Stan’s colleagues at Stony Brook, and perhaps some at NIMH. Since you are coming to visit the Department soon, would you think of this development so that we can discuss It it? My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Miller, Morton Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-036 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/cbb2e008ecc10456933d9233d70b3578.pdf 1ce671ac538d495448b5ea77ffb0632f PDF Text Text September 8, 1992 Walter Sannita, M.D. Institute for Neurophysiopathology University Hospital San Martino I-16132 GENOA Italy Dear Walter, am ’on service’ in September and ’off service’ in October for the inpatient service. have planned a number of trips in October: October 5-8, 14-20, and 27-Nov. 1. It would be best if you came at the end of September. I I have a research fellow, George Petrides for studies in ECT. He has been trained by Itil in the HZI system, and we received an updated version of that system last week. It should be operational in the next few weeks. would be pleased to have you consult and supervise George in his EEG studies. I I Any news from Albuquerque? My daughter-in-law delivered a healthy girl two weeks ago. Martha and are grandparents now. As tell all, don’t feel different, but suppose it has been a turning point in our lives. I I My I I best to Titty. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sannita, Walter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-032 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/e44226f7ca6308b9b44b1126bd96074a.pdf e0df70f47007465689c367a38cc8bdbf PDF Text Text November 30, 1992 Murray Wexler, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry USC School of Medicine LAC/USC Medical Center Los Angeles, CA 90033 Dear Dr. Wexler, am pleased to write this letter describing my experience with Barry Kramer, MD. who is being considered for promotion to the rank of Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. have known of his work since his appointment at Hillside Hospital and to this Department in 1978. Until 1982, we collaborated on ECT projects during his tenure. In 1985, when assumed the editorship of the journal Convulsive Therapy, called on Barry to collaborate on some new projects. In 1991, he was appointed to our Editorial Board. also know him through his activities in the Association for Convulsive Therapy and the American Psychiatric Association. I I I I I Barry is a dedicated, intelligent, and bright clinician and researcher. He is active in clinical research and in research meetings. He is specifically qualified the management of patients geriatric psychiatry. in in high risk ECT and he has a special interest in From his writings and discussions, am impressed with his clinical teaching skills. His presentations at meetings are cogent, concise, and clear, reflecting his skills as a lecturer. I view of his academic record, believe that he is fully qualified for promotion to the rank of Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, and am pleased to recommend his promotion without reservation. In I I Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Wexler, Murray Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-2-030 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f3e57e4d01002162e34f7d00e78ad33d.pdf 5ce7163a4174ad4dfd9a0d78dda0eabd PDF Text Text January 5, 1992 Michael Taylor, MD. Department of Psychiatry UHS/Chicago Medical School 3333 Green Bay Road No. Chicago, Illinois 60064 Dear Mickey, read “Are schizophrenia and affective disorder related? A selective literature review" with much interest and relief, mainly relief. have been finding it increasingly difficult to identify patients with schizophrenia, finding that many patients so labelled responded (with varying degrees of success, sometimes dramatic) to treatments which are ordinarily prescribed for affective illnesses. The cases have not been limited to those with ’catatonia’. These experiences led me to adopt the attitude that no patient should be labelled as suffering from ’schizophrenia’ until after failure of vigorous treatment for affective illness. This view has put me into conflict with my associates Fritz Henn and Lynn DeLisi (firm believers in the genetic dichotomy theory), and even some younger faculty trained at Hopkins. Hence my relief at your review and the challenge it provides to the ’establishment’. l I Keep up the good work. My thanks and my best wishes for a healthy and happy 1992. Admiringly. Max Fink, M.D. Proferssor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Taylor, Michael A. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-028 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/15ebc60ab8a3f574c59bc45bd3bf53dd.pdf bb75602ff52b7f814a140950e79017a7 PDF Text Text January 6, 1992 Mrs. Renee Bigler Doubling Road Greenwich, CT 06830 4O Dear Mrs. Bigler, have searched my collection of videotapes and cannot find one of the Phil Donahue interview to which you refer. Since your letter asks that it be returned, it is probable that did so at the time. l I I appreciate the problems with your son. Looking back at our experience since 1987, do believe that we have confirmed the observation first reported by Meduna in 1937, that patients who have been seriously and continuously ill for more than two years achieve little persistent benefit from ECT. We treat only one such patient, mainly because without ECT he becomes aggressive and hostile, and with it is more relaxed and cooperative. His family insists that we continue, even though he remains in a protected environment. I It is probable that the hope of an important effect from ECT for your son is misplaced. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-026 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a9b5624e54514d24dec3db17986858d9.pdf 4a16a1fcfd87913dcbb26b5ed06a5d1b PDF Text Text January 17, 1992 Governor Mario Cuomo Executive Chamber State Capitol Albany, NY 12224 Dear Governor, have been notified that the Comptroller has ceased retirement payments to TlAA/CREF for most employees of the SUNY system. As with the forced loans demanded by your office from all employees last year, this lack of faith is destructive of employee loyalty l The law linking TlAA/CREF, a defined contribution system, to TRS and ERS is unfair and illegal. This cynical and political maneuver will probably save a few million dollars from this year’ 5 budget, only to be placed on the backs of the next budget when the courts demand redress. I urge your support of legislation to re-instate payments retroactively and immediately. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry ﬁg � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Cuomo, Hon. Mario M. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-025 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1992 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/03c36dc9c7833c9ecc75b18536960e40.pdf 47752ea4463fd1d8131cd8f4c49a6ca5 PDF Text Text j- W March 14, 1992 Werner Herrmann, MD. Clinical Psychophysiology Freie Univesitat Berlin Eschenalle 3 D-1000 Berlin 13 FRG Dear Werner, First, about the IPEG Program. Turan and I met yesterday and completed the program, worked out the program printing, and made suggestions regarding the social calendar for the meeting. It looks good. With regard to the MacNeill et al report in Neuropsychobiology. I agree that you accept what you deem useful. When reviewers differ as to their recommendations, I do not think ’democracy’ is effective; the editor must make a judgement based on the merits of the paper [as he sees it] using the advice of reviewers for specific points. You ask how I proceed as editor of Convulsive Therapy. I see the role of the Editor as ’gatekeeper’and as a ’leader’. I try to determine whether an original article asserts something new, whether it is likely to be true, and whether it is likely to be ’true’ in a few years. Articles that meet these criteria and the support of reviewers are accepted with enthusiasm. Other articles are accepted if they usefully teach -- an experience that might be useful to others, or a technical point that has merit. If the report is an opinion piece -- a commentary or editorial -- I ask that it be related to something published recently, or that it makes a new argument. Finally, reviews are very helpful if they are reasonably complete (I check the citation lists myself) and if the conclusions may be helpful to the reader, whether as a student or as a researcher. The Editor is expected to stimulate and request articles that make new points. I often leave a scientific meeting with notes that lead to letters and later to editorials or reviews which I publish. The section on pharmaco-EEG in Neuropsychobiology has not made a concerted effort to improve our practice. As I recall the articles, they are mainly archival reports of studies that follow standard models. Many are not definitive, weakening our message. They have rarely been accompanied by critiques or editorials. ‘ �Werner Herrmann, MD. Page 2 The next IPEG meeting has two important issues that warrant publication. The papers of the Classification Symposium may usefully be published, perhaps as a special supplement, with a discussion of the relevance of animal models for clinical psychopharmacology. Opinions are divided between the pharmacologists who have a distinct faith that rat studies are the road to defining new psychoactive entities [after all, it is their livelihood], and the clinicians who recall that almost all that is useful in clinical psychiatry has come from clinical efforts, and that so far, no new compound or idea has come from pharmacologic studies. The PK/PD symposium exemplifies a most useful application. It deserves a separate publication, with a discussion of the BGA and FDA positions, and arguments that pharmaco-EEG studies in man have something to offer clinical medicine, something more than is offered by routine PK/PD testing when applied to psychoactive (and neurologic active) drugs. My principal argument with Kiinkel was that he appeared passive in attitude, leaving the section archival and ’no fun’ to read. Miiller-Oerlinghausen made a good point in the latest issue of Pharmacopsychiatry, when he accepted your three papers and then asked me to write a commentary. The ’package’ should have been part of the Pharmaco-EEG section of Neuropsychobiology. [Is it premature for two journals to compete for the limited pharmaco-EEG material?] As editor of the section in Neuropsychobiology, it will take much work; a good beginning can be made at the IPEG meeting where you should try to capture the best papers. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry , � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Herrmann, Werner Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-024 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a13aeea5839fcff42a99b9a04d951ead.pdf 81ab104222be887ebd14cc70e103fbbf PDF Text Text " Prim ":3 w . Emma , �1i: Post-It” brand fax transmittal memo Co. Dept. ’ Co |#of pages > / 3.5617 3 J76 ﬁyféos/ ““6375 - Fax#z/rm 7/3 7 —— 7671 Fa” g _ f Health Sciences Center 7,. My.“ , Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science March 21, 1992 George Simpson, MD. Department of Psychiatry Medical College of Pennsylvania 3200 Henry Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19129 Dear George, lecture material on efficacy of ECT, with slides of efficacy in major depression, major depression with psychosis, schizophrenia, mania, catatonia, NMS, parkinson disease, and a few others. There are also slides of the risks of ECT, considerations in treating the elderly, and maintenance and continuation ECT. The whole represents one of my two stocks in trade. I If slides or, if have full you focus your question more specifically, can find them, send the negatives. I will be glad to copy the I Many recent texts give the data in summary form. These include: Abrams,R. Electroconvulsive therapy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, ‘ 231 pp. American Psychiatric Association. The Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy: Recommendationsfor Treatment, Training and Privileging. Washington, DC. APA Press. 1990. Kellner, C. (Ed.): Electroconvulsive Therapy. Psychiatric Clinics of North America. 14 (4): 793-1020, Dec., 1991. I will be away this week, returning on Monday March 29. Call me afternoon or evening at my home/office- 516 862 6651, or in the mornings at the University- 516 444-2929. I’ll do my best. Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry state University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New “York 11794—8101 516-414141-2990 Fax: 516444-7534 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Simpson, George Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-023 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/47521a213c4ebbc9385bb423194a4610.pdf 6cf53a47b6300d8e9e3164dd956a33e2 PDF Text Text {if ‘ 4!“: _ I!r“.;,"‘,./"';':’/ May 9, 1992 Wilma Harrison, M.D. Roerig Division Pfizer Inc. 235 East 42 Street New York City 10017-5755 Dear Wilma, Thank you for the invitation to participate in the teaching commitments am delighted to do so. As you know, am now identified with ECT and catatonia than in standard antidepressant research. My ’expertise’ is rather specialized and may, or may not, fit into the Roerig teaching program. of Roerig. I I ECT is a most effective treatment, which is offered mainly at major academic hospitals in the U.S. It is hardly available at Veterans Hospitals, state mental hospital, municipal hospitals mental health services, or the NIMH clinical center. Despite the confirmed efficacy and safety of modern ECT. Despite the reports of numerous commissions and study groups. Despite the belief by many psychopharmacologists that the drugs can do all, for all, if only their knowledge and skills were applied. [Even Don Klein, however, has begun to refer patients for ECT.] What can be done? ECT, can surely help. If you wish to support lectures or conferences on I Perhaps Roerig is interested in something more. Each year at the APA, the industry sponsors large lectures, with food and excellent P.R. Each year, the topics are focussed on drug treatment for mania or panic disorder or therapy resistant schizophrenia, each a topic designed to support a defined use of a specific drug. Roerig could do more. Offer a symposium on the evaluation and treatment of the severe mentally ill, with a focus on the relative efficacy, indications, and combined uses of drugs and ECT. By including ECT, you will capture a large [and growing] group of physicians who feel that their training has been deficient [it generally has] and who are now asked to use ECT [by insurers]. A symposium could be organized about a single diagnostic group [depression, bipolar disorder, psychosis] or about a problem [treatments in pregnancy, the elderly, or young adults] with a focus on guidelines for the use of drugs and ECT, in association or sequentially. �Wilma Harrison, MD. Page 2 Catatonia is a second topic. A few years ago, Mickey Taylor and wrote an argument that catatonia should be separated from schizophrenia [it is only defined as a subtype of schizophrenia in D-SM-lll] into a separate class in DSM-IV. The DSM-IV committee agreed, in part, and now recommend that catatonia be a modifier of four conditions. I Our interest in catatonia is based on two issues. ls catatonia a part of schizophrenia or is it something else? Considering the particular efficacy of ECT, should it not be separated from other conditions so that ECT can be used early in the treatment? Further, are catatonia and NMS similar or different disorders? also enclose an editorial “Pharmacotherapy and ECT” which expresses my opinion of some present lacks in the education of psychopharmacologists and clinicians about ECT. I Some specific suggestions. For lectures, the following titles are descriptive: For whom should ECT be considered? ECT and pharmacotherapy: Combined and sequential use. Efficacy and safety of modified ECT. Catatonia and NMS: Identification and treatment. Catatonia: Not so rare and very treatable. For the APA, a conference can be organized on the topic of catatonia, or therapy resistant depression [psychosis], or the pregnant psychotic. Each topic can be organized to be rather unique in modern APA annals. I enclose some reprints for your review, and a copy of my ’short’ c.v. My thanks foryour consideration and my best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Harrison, Wilma Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-020 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/6bd1554506f42e88357bfc3053d5464e.pdf c45c26b3b95254598b1e84de2e9b13ec PDF Text Text , ll?“ May 15, 1992 Ellen P. MacKenzie, MD. 2216 Belle Chasse Highway Gretna, LA 70053 Dear Dr. MacKenzie, very much appreciate your letter of May 5. am heartened, rather than discouraged, by your plea to use my influence and reputation to enhance the education of your colleagues. You represent one of those who came to a course, and are now using your skills to treat patients who need ECT. That is gratifying enough. I I gave a lecture on ECT at the Ochsner Clinic. They sent a to my laboratory for a week. And while have not Heinz, trainee, Jerry young heard directly from him that he has begun to treat patients, another resident introduced herself at a recent course and said that they had begun an ECT unit. Last year, I I The best can do is visit again, if the professionals at Charity Hospital seek some help, either in teaching or in organizing an ECT service. But the need must be felt by the professionals at the facility. I I believe we are making progress. The case reports published by Sandoz are not meant to educate, but to indoctrinate. So long as medical schools and psychiatric organizations depend on the largesse of industry, they will be subject to this type of ’education’. Gilbert Honigfeld is poorly acquainted with ECT, and has no interest in any comparison bevvteen clozapine and ECT. When clozapine was still ’experimental’, proposed to Honigfeld, Kane, and Meltzer a study of their treatment failures, i.e., the 70% of clozapine treated patients who did not improve, with ECT at no extra expense to the patients. But we never received referrals and only recently have Meltzer and Kane begun trials of ECT with clozapine or after clozapine. I Good luck in your efforts, and many thanks fgor your kind remarks. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Editor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-017 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/9173d52badc30efd8e1efd272c8e8ca1.pdf 9014ecae082176ee5594eb8da125bde6 PDF Text Text June 3, 1992 Laureen Froimson R.N.C., M.S.N. @-South University of North Carolina Hospitals 101 Manning Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27514 Dear Ms. Froimson, It is true that Convu/sive Therapy is not indexed in MEDLINE, but that is as much a political as a scientific/academic decision. It used to be that all medical periodicals were indexed after they produced two complete years of publication, but with the flood of new journals, the decisions are now made by a committee of NLM. You can be of help if you would write about your concern to the Director of the National Library of Medicine, pointing out your difficulties, the importance of ECT at your hospital, etc. You may wish to send a copy to Sheldon Kotzin, Chief of Bibliographic Services Division of NLM. (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda MD 20894). We do not have a special set of guidelines for nursing in preparation. We are working on a set of Policies and Procedures that can be adapted at your hospital. enclose a copy of the University of Michigan document that is a I model. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Edhor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Froimson, Laureen Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-015 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/ef270789c44a1ba1c8c9a67f10bebc86.pdf 1d14e038c02d9b79c3d2f20b107ad796 PDF Text Text June 3, 1992 Herbert Meltzer, MD. Department of Psychiatry Case Western Reserve Medical School 2040 Abington Road Cleveland OH 44106 Dear Herb, Your telephone call about my letter to the APA regarding Dr. Orne led me to my files. enclose a copy of my letter to Dr. Sabshin and his office’ reply. That is the extent of my involvement, which followed on the public presentation of what was alleged to be Dr. Orne’s release of confidential tapes from psychotherapy sessions after the death of a patient. I do not know how my name is associated as a lead name in a complaint. called Dr. Sabshin’s office and was told that my letter was one of many that had been received and that had been forwarded to the Psychiatric Physicians of Pennsylvania. 1 I The matter is not personal, either with regard to Dr. Orne or the author to whom he released the tapes. I trust this information may be helpful. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-014 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f46a60b7a52849c776ea64d6acd0701d.pdf 5d097620864ebc8a518cb66323eecb8e PDF Text Text June 23, 1992 Arnold J. Friedhoff, M.D. Chair, Lieber Prize Advisory Panel Department of Psychiatry NYU School of Medicine 550 First Avenue New York City 10016 Dear Arnie, would like to suggest that MICHAEL ALLEN TAYLOR, M.D. be considered for the Lieber Prize. Mickey is Professor & Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry & Behaviorasl Sciences at UHS/Chicago Medical School. have known him since his residency days, and was his mentor when he received the A.E. Bennett award of the Society of Biological Psychiatry in 1969. I I He has been an avid student of the psychopathology of schizophrenia. His major contribution has been to provide important criteria to subdivide and identify populations of patients with schiophrenia for family, genetic, and biological studies. In studies from 1972 to 1980, he and his colleagues examined the of validity the diagnosis of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness by examining the clinical phenemoenology of these diagnostic groups to demographic, family illness, neuropsychological and treatment response variables. They demonstrated that catatonia was more prominent in patients with affective disorders than in those with schizophrenia. They carried out prospective studies to classify patients using cross-sectional criteria and developed an objective basis for classifying patients with the major functional psychoses. Their studies suggested that the diagnosis of schizophrenia was being made too often, with a low degree of validity for the diagnosis of acute, paranoid, good prognosis, catatonic and schizo-affective schizophrenia. His studies demonstrated that if a patient satisfied the diagnostic criteria for affective disorder, a good prognosis was the rule, despite the additional presence of first rank symptoms of schizophrenia [Schneider], formal thought disorder, or catatonia. �Page 2 Michael Taylor the past decade, Mickey has developed rigorous, validated criteria to establish homogeneous patient samples for schizophrenia diagnostic research; focussed studies on the functional relationships between neuronal In groups and behavior, using neuropsychological techniques; and regional cortical functioning in patients with major psychoses. He is carrying out independent studies of family illness data to define subgroups of schizophrenic and affective disorder patients, relating these data to biologic and clinical variables and comparing various models of genetic transmission of illness. Mickey has written a classical analysis of catatonia which is the basis of the separation of this disorder, with defined treatment and prognostic criteria, from schizophrenia in DSM—IV. He is among the most innovative of the present generation opf in schizophrenia. He is an eminent teacher and scholar, editor, research leaders and administrative leader. I commend him for your consideration for the Lieber Prize. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-013 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. 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My association has been limited to working with Pierre as a consultant in ongoing and proposed pharmaco-EEG studies, and in our communications at the recent IPEG (International Pharmaco-EEG Group) meetings at Boca Raton. l Pierre is a well trained neurologist with both an MD. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience. While his publication record is limited, his training record is extraordinary. found Pierre most knowledgeable about EEG, drug pharmacokinetics, and pharmaco-EEG practice and theory. He participated actively in the meetings. He is a charming French-man, with an excellent command of English, and a keen sense of humor. He is a delight to be with, and he has captivated Turan, his family, and all their friends. ! commend him to you with enthusiasm. Considering his neurologic and EEG backghround, a firm grasp of modern psychopharmacology should be most helpful in assuring useful contributions in pharmaco-EEG. I My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Salzman, Carl Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-033-1-011 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/25b51eaf259e0deb9392b1ef36288792.pdf cdcf7b05f070279bd629e54dfc37bcf7 PDF Text Text November 30, 1991 Martin B. Keller, M.D. Dept. Psychiatry & Human Behavior Butler Hospital 345 Blackstone Blvd. Providence, RI 02906 Dear Martin, am pleased to write this letter in support of the promotion of Barry Fogel, MD. to the rank of Professor in the Teaching Scholar track at Brown University. have known Barry for about six years, since he began his NIMH Geriatric fellowship. At that time, he introduced himself and asked for guidance in the application of ECT in his studies. have met him at numerous professional meetings and cooperated in his leadership role in the American Neuropsychiatric Association. I I l . Barry’s strong points are his interest and skill in teaching and education, his friendly personality, and his enthusiasm for clinical care of the elderly. His weak point is his lack of a productive academic research focus. His personality and enthusiasm has led to his appointment to committees in geriatric societies, and the many calls for him to write chapters multi-authored texts. With Dr. Stoudemire, he has published an excellent textbook of medical psychiatry which is useful as a clinical reference. His publications reflect his scholarship but lack independent creativity. With Randy Schiffer of the University of Rochester, he in created the American Neuropsychiatric Association and has led that Association to have an interest in education and special certification in the American Boards. He was instrumental in supporting the Association’s affiliation with the APA journal of neuropsychiatry, with its focus on clinical case material, rather than the more academic and research oriented competitor published by Raven Press. Barry is a good lecturer. l have not seen him work in a clinical setting so cannot comment on his clinical skills. Considering the guidelines of your letter of November 16, Barry clearly meets the requirements for promotion in a teaching track, and recommend his I promotion with enthusiasm. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-4-106 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/c9d82d1453dca549d5c4ee9545795d24.pdf b1d80c861e0d6cae32ad896f34646ee4 PDF Text Text December 2, 1991 Wagner Bridger, MD. Medical College of Pennsylvania 3200 Henry Avenue Philadelphia PA 19129 Dear Wagner, am delighted to recommend the faculty appointment of Charles MD. as Professor of Psychiatry at MCP. Shagass, I have known Charlie since 1955, when he had developed the sedation threshold test, the first of the modern biological tests for classification of the mentally ill. It was my good fortune to undertake confirming studies of this work which remains an important part of my evaluation of patients. l A leader in electrophysiology, Charlie has written numerous books and articles on EEG and behavior. A leader in the academic world, he has been instrumental in propelling the Society of Biological Psychiatry to the forefront in biological psychiatry. A leader in the international scene in biological psychiatry, he was instrumental in organizing the International congresses of biological psychiatry. His record includes all aspects of professorial activity -— pre-eminent research, active teaching, administrative leadership, and important clinical contributions. Charlie is well liked by his peers and his co-workers, as witnessed by the many honors and appointments that he has had. recommend his appointment as Professor, with enthusiasm and without hesitation or reservation. I Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Bridger, Wagner Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-4-104 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/58721fde94f95764bdd7b766dc632e01.pdf 1be326cb863f9c4dd27f8a885e06ec21 PDF Text Text December 4, 1991 James Ballenger, M.D. Chairman, Department of Psychiatry Medical University of South Carolina 171 Ashley Avenue Charleston, SC 29425-0742 Dear Jim, great pleasure that | submit this letter in support of the promotion of Charles H. Kellner, MD. to the rank of Professor of Psychiatry. It is with have known Charlie since about 1985 when he moved to South Carolina and asked for my advice in training in ECT. Since then, he has been an active reviewer for Convulsive Therapy and an occasional contributor. have followed his research publications and listened to his presentations at scientific societies. encouraged his acceptance of an active role in the Association for Convulsive Therapy, as well as the course in ECT which he is chairing in Charleston in February, 1992. l l l Charlie is a well trained psychiatrist, certified by the American Boards with special certification in geriatric psychiatry, and eligible for certification in neurology. His teaching and administrative skills are defined by his roles in residency training, ECT, and consultation/liaison. He is an active researcher. In his period at NIMH, he reported useful findings brain imaging (CT and MRI) in relation to measures of cognitive impairment, hypercortisolemia, and lately in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder. He has published numerous letters and commentaries in ECT, and has a series of contributions in ECT accepted for the 1992 APA and ACT in meetings. He is an enthusiastic clinician. While I have not had the opportunity to observe his clinical work directly, have read numerous clinical research contributions and these exhibit enthusiasm, interest, and breadth. I At this time, he is one of a handful of ’young’ researchers in ECT in the US. Considering the general antipathy to ECT among psychiatrists, his willingness to use, teach, and study ECT is remarkable. A few months ago, was asked by Bob Cloninger for recommendations for a young researcher in ECT for his Department in St. Louis. gave him three names, with Charlie’s at the head of the list. I I �Re: Charles Kellner, MD. Page 2 His contributions to Convulsive Therapy have been intelligent and enthusiastic. In recommending new appointments to the Editorial Board for 1992-1996, Charlie was unanimously invited. like his calm and quiet ways, and his enthusiasm and willingnes to admire his academic skills; recommend him for promotion without reservation, in the full expectation that he will continue to contribute to the academic vigor of our field. I work; I I Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Ballenger, James Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-4-102 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/258061a07efdd559edb2b45b1ec4402f.pdf d707bd5b92d0cfa522a6248bb3a2d3be PDF Text Text December 18, 1991 Mr. Bert Ellis 7 High Trees New Barnet, Herts., EN4 England 900 Dear Mr. Ellis, am rather surprised that anyone could have gotten anything positive from the third hour of MADNESS. After viewing my copy, thought that the hoopla of history and dramatization had destroyed the message. I I The diagnosis of schizophrenia is difficult, and the rules for such determination have changed three times in my professional career. Electroconvulsive therapy has been in active use since 1938, and many reports argue that patients with severe psychoses and severe affective illnesses (mania and depression) respond well to ECT. The major complaint against its use has been the high relapse rate, but that followed the attitude that the shorter the course of treatments the better. That attitude was spawned by public antipathy and fears that patients receiving treatment were ’brain-damaged’. Recent determined studies find the fears of brain damage unfounded. The development of techniques for treatment which minimize risks has made the treatment more available. These experiences led to the use of maintenance treatment, and my statement in the interview in MADNESS. The question of suitability of ECT for your daughter is not to be determined by the diagnosis, but by her symptomatology and course. Mood changes, vegetative symptoms, positive symptoms of psychosis, periodicity, and signs of catatonia are some predictors of good outcome with ECT, independent of the perception or diagnosis of ’schizophrenia’. While there are many competent psychiatrists with a knowledge of ECT in Great Britain, the ones who have written the most recently are Sydney Brandon of Leicesterhire and John Pippard of London and commend them to I your attention. Thank you for your inquiry. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Ellis, Bert Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-4-100 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/abaae041d4b89ebeb40acb4e480e4107.pdf d8ab9c94924bc120b5d776042f27b880 PDF Text Text Health Sciences Center School of Medicine Department of Psycl'tic—itry and Behavioral Science December 20, 1991 Walter Sannita, M.D. Institute for Neurophysiopathology University Hospital San Martino 1-16132 GENOA Italy Dear Walter, I received the short note to be edited and because the text required numerous hand-written marks, I returned the whole by air—mail one week ago. I did not retain a copy of the edited text, but will do it again if the letter has not reached you. As for your book, I have printed out your final version and have read it once. As I said when I read the prior draft, you have much to say that is unique. I urge you to continue. You have more to say than the book that I had in mind; your knowledge of physiology is greater than any of the the other pharmaCo-EEG experts and perhaps a presentation of your views will enhance the science. No one can anticipate the response of readers to a written report or book, but I encourage you to go ahead with the writing. If you wish to get an outside opinion, it would be helpful to propose a provisional Table of Contents and to answer the following queries in a letter form. What is the probable size of the text? How many figures? How many tables? How many citations? For whom is the book intended? What is the probable audience? Which membership lists would be appropriate to canvass? research? Do you consider the book a review, textbook, or summary of individual To whom should a publisher turn for independent opinions as to the merits of the book? If the publisher accepts the proposal, in what time-frame can he anticipate a first draft? Do you require an advance for figures and tables, typing or editing? State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 'll794—8lOl 510-444—2990 FaX15l6—444—7534 �Sannita— December 20, 1991 Page 2 With these in hand, you should approach a number of publishers in letter form. In the U.S., Raven Press, Elsevier Press, Oxford University Press, Academic Press, and Wiley come to mind. I can find others in booklists. In Europe, the German and the Italian presses are very active. My best regards to Titty and the girls, and my best wishes for a healthy and happy 1992. Sincerely yours, W Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry RS. 1 have received about 10 abstracts for the IPEG meeting so far. I will copy these during the first week of January and send them off by air-mail for your advice. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sannita, Walter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-4-099 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/5ac10e4b67a8d64b27281103119f5aca.pdf 8ee8cb1b5ede8317aa04bc01be7a6714 PDF Text Text May 2, 1991 Mrs. Robin Nicol MECTA Corporation 7015 SW McEwan Road Lake Oswego, OR 97035 Dear Robin, It was a 36 Spring Hollow Road to work with you, Gorham, and your pleasure CME course in New York. Despite the unpleasantness of the intrusions, the students seemed to get much from the course. John Schwartz was sufficiently pleased to call to say that he would like to undertake another course this Fall, and perhaps establish an 'Advanced Course' as well. I would like to return the modified MECTA SR-l which you kindly sent us last year. It is in excellent shape and could well be returned to your inventory. Would you send me the appropriate carton and packing materials so that I can return it in good form? Again, send the material to me by UPS or other freight handler to: associates at the My St. James, regards to all. New York 11780 Sincerely yours, Fink, M.D. Executive Director Max � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Nicol, Robin Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-098 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a9653665c3f153c038d1c9ab4d6a5b10.pdf 42d6955f591c5b7bc9e8d94373831b9f PDF Text Text May 2, 1991 Dr. John Schwartz Inc. Tustin CA 92680 CME, 730 El Camino Way Dear John, An old friend wrote the enclosed note in response to New York. I thought you would like to see it. the events in As a confidential note. Linda Andre, the woman who intruded so emotionally in the course, is not accepting a reasonable settlement of her malpractice suit. The lawyers called this week to say that they were preparing to go to she apparently wants her day before the media rather trial; than a reasonable resolution of her complaints. I look forward to seeing you in New Orleans. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Schwartz, John Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-097 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/2bdf2262a04cdcb4248ecb3a95cf45dc.pdf f04cb62b824cce5625ace90edddcd154 PDF Text Text May Myron Sandifer, 2, 1991 M.D. 4008 Mayflower Lane Lexington, KY 40504 Dear Myron, was Thank you very much for your kind words. The session and one never knows how to react to such an painful, impassioned intrusion. We are still trying to get ECT accepted, not only by the laity, but also by our peers. Despite the two APA Task Force reports, the NIH Consensus statement, and endorsement by the AMA, ECT remains a stepchild in many training programs and in most State, V.A., Federal, and municipal hospitals. As I continue to give courses, I have noticed that the audience is changing. A few years ago, most auditors were 'old-timers', men and women who had been doing ECT for some time. In the past few years, the auditors have become younger; many are recent graduates in psychiatry who have gone into the community to practice and have found their training deficient. These students are a delight to teach. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Editor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sandirer, Myron Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-096 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/74bff10770507f790f30c5128f274617.pdf 3be3910d3a49748bf22647e258cfe506 PDF Text Text May 2, 1991 PhiIip SIavney, M.D. Department of Psychiatry Johns Hopkins HospitaI 600 N. Woife BaItimore, Dear MD Street 21205 PhiIip, It was kind of you to recommend The Life and Work of Josef Breuer. It was difficuIt to find, but I am deIighted that I finaIIy got it. The picture of Viennese medicine at the turn of the century much Tess a few decades ago is idyIIic than the anaIysts portrayed I I (when sat at the feet of the anaIysts). appreciated the notes on Anna 0., particuIarIy Breuer’s case history. The emphasis on opioids (my own) is Tess c1ear in this text, aIbeit stiII present in sufficient detaiI not to vitiate my argument that dependence was a feature of her ’dis-ease’ and many and prolonged hospitaIizations. In my defense I see in these notes, and in some others from that period, a reminder of our present attitude to anxiontics and hypnotics. Many patients are to read it admitted or referred to us with detaiIed notes about their use of TCA, anti-psychotics, Iithium, carbamazepine, a1cohoI, and cocaine, and onIy passing reference to the prescribed aIprazoiam and f1urazepam. MAOI, Andy and Laura are doing weII. They proposed a ’smaII study’ of as a mode] of maintenance ECT which we are able to fund from a gratefu] famin. The parents are wi11ing to support this research even ECS though they admit that our course of IittIe reIief. i1] patient ECT for their daughter gave her Andy aiso has become interested in a high risk medicaIIy with a very recent repaired aortic aneurysm who was successfuIIy treated with Thank you again ECT. for thinking of me. My best regards. Sincerer yours, Max Fink, Editor M.D. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Slavney, Philip Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-095 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/5e203efc5e8baac48e64f98378f66106.pdf 79a4b1037956d255ee1773713741bc11 PDF Text Text May 17, 1991 Dr. P. J. Cowen Psychopharmacology Research Unit Littlemore Hospital Oxford OX4 4XN United Kingdom Dear Philip, share the information about Peter Breggin with your colleagues so that they can be better prepared if called upon to challenge him By all means, in the lists. After my letter, completed the enclosed historical note in response to from the editor of a special number of the Psvchiatric Clinics of invitation an North America. This is a draft; you may share it as you see fit, but the language may change when the editor has his say. I The anti-psychiatry movement in the US. has taken on Prozac (fluoxetine). They aroused not only the manufacturer, but the whole pharmacetical establishment, and with it, the press and television. TIME had a lengthy article attacking scientology (May 6, 1991), as did the Wall Street Journal (April 19, 1991). the U.S., the main response to the anti-psychiatry movement is spear-headed by the APA Task Force on Electroconvulsive Therapy, chaired by Richard Weiner, MD. of Duke University. In My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-092 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/305b23c89b7e73760bb6280c962dc167.pdf 95728ad9ed01d39823b96f1ec150cfca PDF Text Text «F V/- ?/ ["1513 Wednesday May 15, 3:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Side Effects of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) Efficacy and for Post-Stroke Depression Lawrence W. Lazarus, M.D., Psychiatry, Rush- Pres- St. Luke's, 1653 West Congress Parkway, Chicago, IL 60612; David Winemiller, B.S., Venkata Lingam, M.D., Carolyn Hartman, M.D., Ida Neyman, M.D., Mehrdad Abbassian, M.D., Usha Kartan, M.D., Pauline Langsley, M.D., Virginia Markvart, Fi.N., Jan Fawcett, M.D. Summary: Large numbers of stroke victims suffer significant depression within the ﬁrst two years following stroke. Use of tricyclic antidepressants among elderly patients is often complicated by side effects such as orthostatic hypotension. Methylphenidate has been shown to be a rapid , safe, and effective treatment for depressed geriatric patients. Methylphenidatewas studied for safety and efficacy in the treatment of post-stroke depression at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago. Ten elderly stroke patients with a DSMIll-R diagnOsis of major depressive disorder, a minimum Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of 15, and a minimum Mini Mental Status score of 14 were treated with methylphenidate and studied for three weeks. Four of the 10 subjects showed Hamilton score reductions of 50% or greater. An additional four subjects showed Hamilton score reductions of at least 25%. No subject had adverse side effects necessitating discontinuation from the study. Five of the 10 subjects reported between one and three individual side effects. Methylphenidate appears to be a safe and effective treatment for elderly patients with post-stroke depression. Its rapid onset of action and relatively low side effect profile may offer advantages over tricyclic antidepressants, particularly in a rehabilitation or acute medical hospital setting. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-091 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/97eeed54a549b6ea00f26c0e806bc4dd.pdf da064d777aa6686ee9ab2bf99c9d255a PDF Text Text July 15, 1991 David Neubauer, M.D. Francis Scott Key Medical Center 4940 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224 Dear Dr. Neubauer, theory It was kind of you to send the reprints and citations on chaos and EEG. The reprints arrived fortuitously when I had a visiting scientist/electroencephalographer from Genoa, Dr. Walter Sannita, who has been interested in the theory as another way to analyze EEG signals. assume the concept is of interest as a novel way to reduce form for further study (as in pharmaco—EEG, for example) and as a basis for understanding the origins of the EEG. After reading these reprints, I am reminded of the search for other techniques to reduce EEG signals to numeric form: Drohocki integrator, pattern analysis, shape analysis, period analysis, power spectral density are some methods that we have used. After some extensive (and expensive) computer comparisons of three of these methods, we realized that each method is based on a massaging of the original numeric digital signals as presented by the amplifiers, and therefore, one system must be related to every other system; and that they can only be compared on the I EEG signals to numeric basis of efficiency, not for an on ’meaning’. I cannot contribute thoughts to whether chaos theory is useful understanding of the origins of the EEG. studies. Again, my thanks and my best wishes for success in your Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Neubauer, David Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-084 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/733c030b63de0a9e647b87a85a5b8e33.pdf 64a0d6ea13f3efa021155a2c09c07c5e PDF Text Text INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH, Inc. BOX 457, St. lames, NY. I I780 l5I6I 862—665] (516) 444-2929 July 12, 1991 Chown Exmouth House 3-11 Pine Street London EC1R OJH Davall & UK Dear Ms. Ravenhill, was either in the British Medical Journal or Lancet that a news story within the past six months noting an unusual report by an Australian appeared Royal Commission (presumably medical) which explored the claims of a scientist that Deep Sleep Therapy was particularly useful in treating the mentally ill. The inquiry was launched because of allegations of deaths associated with It this treatment, and the Commission was reported to have found the methods unsafe and recommended their discontinuation. lack the original note as it was sent to my librarian who returned only a note from the Royal Society in London that Davall & Chown was a source for this material. enclose a copy of their leﬁen I I based on experience with insulin coma therapy of psychoses, electroconvulsive therapy, and what has conventionally been called ’sleep therapy’ without the ’deep’ modifier. The latter therapy was described in 1922 by Swiss psychiatrists, and was used until the late 19305 when insulin coma and electroconvulsive therapy were replacements. My interest is I would be grateful for your help. Sincerely yours, ﬂwab‘wc Max Fink, M.D. Executive Director �llNTERPUNHCNVAL/K SSOCIATION FOR P SYCFHATRK:RESEARC}ilnC &m4315Lmnmst<H7&) (516)862-6651 (516)444—2929 July 2, 1991 Davall & Chown Exmouth House 3-11 Pine Street OJH London EC1R UK Gentlemen: We of the Australian copy a obtain I have beenb Therapy. would like to Sleep on Deep Report Royal Commission is available from your advised that FAX it office. the charges for to as advise Please 8604. this report. #: 516 862 Thank you. Sincerely yours, Fink, M.D. Executive Director Max Our � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Ravenhill, Donna Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-081 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/bbb18a593a783008ed09d0fd78cf649c.pdf af7a075c381f1fce4db7ce5c11dbb8af PDF Text Text July 24, 1991 Honorable Daniel Moynihan U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510 Dear Senator Moynihan, As a psychiatrist with more experience, I am writing with regard than 40 years of professional to the progressive deterioration in medical care in our nation. effects of the Great Society legislation been have not on medical care salutary, and the present considerations RBRVS HCFA fee schedules for Medicare for psychiatry will make of by matters considerably worse. The guidelines provide inadequate payment for practitioners for all psychiatric services to the elderly. Because these guidelines will become the standard for all insurers, the impact on psychiatric care throughout the nation will be negative. Psychiatrists have been among the less paid members of our profession, and instead of improving the availability of psychiatric treatment, the proposed regulations will make care even more limited The proposed than it is. Are you aware that various psychiatric treatments are not available in our State for the patients of the Office of Mental Health? For example, convulsive therapy is an effective and safe therapy (see NIH Consensus Conference report, 1985) which is available only in academic and private hospitals and the few academic affiliated hospitals of OMH. Under the present regulations, this effective treatment will be even less available. urge you to vote to eliminate the 50% copayment for psychiatric services, and to improve the proposed MFS for psychiatric I treatment. Thank you for your attention. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Daniel Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-080 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/bb791dcf44d009a3c4fe04e5f760fecf.pdf aadd26e7b0cacd17d9b09d16599ee118 PDF Text Text July 25, 1991 Jacques M. Quen, MD. New York State Psychiatric Association 200 Garden City Plaza New York City 11530 Dear Dr. Quen, I responded to your letter of July and Senators. 11 and wrote to my Congressmen am interested in the guidelines for electroconvulsive therapy. Would be possible for your office to abstract the relevant RBRVS recommended schedules for ECT, as well as anesthesia for ECT, and send these to me? I it Recently, wrote to Harvey Bluestone about the unavailability of ECT for patients at Kings Park and Rockland Psychiatric Centers, and that their patients were being treated at University Hospital. He wrote that my note to him was sent to you for consideration. Dr. Oldham of OMH appointed a committee two years ago to consider ECT in OMH hospitals; the committee under Dr. I Russakoff surveyed the practice (and probably found it wanting). The report has not been made public, nor has OMH taken any action to rectify a defined lack of services. Perhaps the matter deserves consideration by the Association? Thank you for your help. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-079 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/2f8e8dd6dcad05a225e550a5d400a579.pdf 9912acbbd6f23d59a5fd65785ea1dd81 PDF Text Text August 2, 1991 Robert P. Hopkins, M.D. Chairman, Credentials Committee McLean Hospital 115 Mill Street Belmont, MA 02178-9106 Dear Dr. Hopkins, I am pleased to write this letter in support of the application of Morton G. Miller, MD. for the professional staff of McLean Hospital. Mort was a member of our Department at Stony Brook for more than a decade under the leadership of Stanley Yolles, and I knew him as a co-worker and unit chief. Mort came to Stony Brook with Dr. Yolles from NIMH. In our Department, he was the organizer and leader of the in—patient service, and I worked closely with him as an Attending Psychiatrist. Mort is an excellent clinician. He is skilled in clinical descriptive psychiatry, and an excellent psychopathologist. He was instrumental in defining the group of manic patients who come in a state of delirium, and who are immediately responsive to ECT. He organized our affective disorders program and the lithium aftercare clinic. In this unit, he inspired a number of his juniors to credible research (Aronson, Shukla) with excellent publications. He is an excellent and well organized teacher. He knows the academic literature, including much history, and is able to lecture in an inspiring and thoughtful manner. He is a fine administrator, and is well liked by the professional staff. He is honest, thoughtful, and adheres to the highest principles of our profession. I am not aware that he has ever been denied any professional privilege or membership which he requested; nor has he been denied licensure. He stood before our tenure committee and was promoted to Full Professor with tenure in due course. He is rather abstemious in his use of alcohol and there has never been a hint of drug use. I have no hesitation in recommending him for full professional privileges in psychiatry, and do so without reservation. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-078 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/655e16541eb65bf5dbd3b0999e850dae.pdf 308c6e8aac071c327029396e7f9897df PDF Text Text August 28, 1991 John Kane, MD. Department of Psychiatry LIJ-Hillside Medical Center PO. Box 38 Glen Oaks, NY 11004 Dear John, I received your memorandum of August 13 noting the By-Laws requirement that members of the medical staff are to attend at least 50% of the department/divisional conferences or meetings during the year. This note is to request an exception, as I am actively involved in the campus at Stony Brook and get to Hillside on occasion. If you think it important, I will meet the non-onerous standard set in the memorandum. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Kane, John M. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-3-073 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1991 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/31969d5b591466abeb428fea254b3f4c.pdf e4afe5776670c3e45537b223973bc8a5 PDF Text Text January 24, 1991 Dominick P. Purpura, M.D., Dean Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx NY 10461 Dear Dr. Purpura, with pleasure that | write this letter in support of the appointment of Dr. Bertrand the rank of Visiting Professor of Psychiatry. Winsberg to It is first met Bert in the mid-19703 when he joined the faculty of the Long Island Research Institute, a state supported facility of the Department of Psychiatry. His work in Child Psychiatry was a central teaching unit of our residency training program. My contacts with Bert were in two arenas -- the administrative meetings of the senior faculty of the Department, and in his psychopharmacologic research. I Bert was an active and thoughtful member of our faculty, who provided reasoned judgement on issues of concern. He ’fought’ actively to develop a child psychiatry fellowship program, and was enthusiastic about both the clinical research and teaching activities of the Department. think he was sorely disappointed that we were unable to convince the hospital administration to open an in—patient child/adolescent unit. I His research was mainly psychopharmacologic. When was interested in the pharmacology of a new entity, mianserin, he studied its pharmacology and pharmacodynamics in children and adolescents. He provided a much needed complement to our own studies in adults. His studies of methylphenidate were also illuminating. I Bert left Stony Brook in the mass exodus following the decision by New York State no longer to support the scientists of the Long Island Research Institute. He was well liked and we were disappointed when no other funding was available. Bert is a friendly, enthusiastic, energetic man, with a keen interest in clinical He has specialized skills in child psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He is an able psychiatry. teacher and a dogged supporter of his staff. His administrative skills are reflected in his creation and maintenance of a Child Psychiatry Program when none existed before. He trained a skilled staff, and encouraged young researchers to develop careers in child psychiatry. l consider Bert a leader in clinical psychiatry and am delighted to recommend him, without reservation, for appointment as Visiting Professor of Psychiatry. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Purpura, Dominick P. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a6d2c85a62f2ddfdcbdd457e428c348f.pdf 7af53651f7bffdf8904ab4da7b3cf396 PDF Text Text January 29, 1991 Jay Cohen, MD. FAX: 305 321 8024 Dear Dr. Cohen, This letter is with regard to Mrs. Sandy Ruttenberg of Pittsburgh, who has sought your advice about a gynecological problem. About a decade ago, Mrs. Ruttenberg had symptoms referable to the CNS and in an examination, an abnormal electroencephalogram, consistent with seizure disorder, was reported. Phenytoin was prescribed, with the admonition that it be continued indefinitely. After a number of years, she sought advice as to whether such treatment Re-examination and repeat EEG found no evidence of CNS terminable. was disorder, and phenytoin was discontinued, without recurrence of CNS symptoms. Two years ago, she again experienced some symptoms which couold have been of cerebral origin. Neurological, EEG and other imaging tests failed to define a CNS lesion or disorder and no treatment was prescribed. Her symptoms remitted and she has not had other CNS symptoms since. In the absence of neurological complaints, there is no reason in this experience which would preclude her receiving any treatment for a gynecological disorder, including surgery requiring general anesthesia. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Attending Psychiatrist � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/6976d29863b72b95e7d9f925f3ad45db.pdf 701bd50db0d3f035449599a2b1272e94 PDF Text Text February 16, 1991 Editor Letters to the Editor New York Times Times Square, New York 10036 Sir: Enclosed is a letter in response to the excellent OP-ED review by Oliver Sacks of the state of our State Hospitals. It is submitted for your consideration for publication. . The persistent failure of the State services to take advantage of our knowledge is a reﬂection of a failure of leadership; the appointment by the Governor of a non-physician as the head of the Office of Mental Health has not been salutary. In this letter, I suggest only one method of helping the severe mentally ill. There is a lack of training and understanding of other therapies, as well, including lithium therapy, new antidepressants, and clozapine. Many State Hospitals have closed their medical wards, and are no longer able to care for the medical needs of their patients. I describe only one aspect of this failure to properly treat patients, and seek public support for a public investigation of the state of our State Hospitals. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry Attending Psychiatrist University Hospital �February 16, 1991 To the Editor, Oliver Sacks (New York Times, February 13, 1991) correctly complains about the impact of the cuts in the State’s mental health budget on the care of our severe mentally ill. We are reliving the ’Shame of the States’ of the 19405, but only part is due to budget cuts. There is also a failure to take advantage of advances in mental health care, specifically the unavailability of electrconvulsive therapy for patients in the State Hospitals. Patients who require ECT from these hospitals have often been transferred to the psychiatric unit at University Hospital for treatment, the only public hospital in Suffolk County organized to give ECT. Other patients, from Rockland Psychiatric Center where ECT is also not available, have also been sent for treatment. The usefulness of ECT is well documented. Mrs. R, sustained in a manic delirium for more than three years, is now well and at home after a course of ECT. As is Mrs. W., a patient with a similar illness. Mr. K., is living in a halfway house after more than a decade of continuous hospitalization with a catatonic psychosis. Others were transferred with severe inanition, severe suicidal drive, and malignant catatonia, and were successfully treated. �The 1985 National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on Electroconvulsive Therapy concluded that "ECT is demonstrably effective for a narrow range of psychiatric disorders in a limited number of diagnostic categories: delusional and severe endogenous depression, and manic and certain schizophrenic syndromes." It is precisely this range of severe mentally ill that populate our State Hospitals. In response to these evaluations, psychiatrists of both Great Britain (1989) and the United States (1990) wrote guidelines for the use of ECT which make the practice safe as well as effective. Its use has increased in the academic and non-profit hospitals of the state, but it is available in only a few State Hospitals. In Suffolk County, with three of the largest facilities for the mentally ill in the state, ECT has only recently become available on a research basis in one hospital, and even this usage is threatened by the proposed budgetary cuts. The usual justification for failure to provide ECT is the lack of funds for and adequate professional staff (mainly anesthesiologists), and for training. We should not accept such explanations, since ECT is effective, humane, and even costeffective by reducing protracted hospitalization and the need for specialized nursing care. The degradation of the State’s mental health services has already had tragic consequences for our community. Rather than accept the Governor’s budget and decrease services, we need a blue ribbon investigation of the state of our State Hospitals to seek ways to use available treatments to help the mentally ill, of which ECT is only one example. Max Fink, M.D. Attending Psychiatrist University Hospital � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/5b9a44fcaf14d7a5f6579449d67bb8df.pdf 96194333c1cc0ec421969075980975ab PDF Text Text March 2, 1991 David L. Braff, M.D. Chairman, Membership Committee Society of Biological Psychiatry UC-San Diego San Diego, CA 92103-1990 Dear Dr. Braff, I have been acquainted for about four years with the work of Dr. Chittaranjan Andrade of the National Institute of Mental Health and Sciences of India. He is a talented investigator who has tackled a topic of little concern among neuroscientists, that of the behavioral effects of induced seizures in man. He, and his associates Drs. B. Gangadhar, G. Swamineth, and S. Channabasavanna have been very productive in their research into clinical ECT. Dr. Andrade also spent a fellowship year in Vienna with Drs. Ianger and Koinig in studies of neuroendocrine effects of ECT. Dr. Andrade and his associates were instrumental in organizing the first Conference VAll-India on ECT this Fall; a meeting which I understand was most successful in highlighting the national progress in clinical use and research into this hardly used therapy. There was a time when the Society of Biological Psychiatry (formed as a union of biological, electroshock, insulin coma, and carbon dioxide specialists) was interested in ECT. If that is still true, then Dr. Andrade is a fine example of the new breed of clinician/researchers whose work should be encouraged; membership in a US. organized society may do much for him, and I recommend him highly to the Society. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry 19505, a winner of the first A.E. Bennett Award, and winner of the Gold Medal Award of the Society. PS. I have been a Fellow of the Society since the � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Braff, David L. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-067 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/fa608e576f4f6f6c84922238fc47c7c0.pdf d132acb2eb843ee9e1183d197230acd3 PDF Text Text March 7, 1991 Xue Chong-cheng, MD. PO. Box 591524 San Francisco, CA 94159-1524 Dear Dr. Xue, Welcome to the United States. If you can give me a telephone number I can call to discuss your schedule of visits in the United States. Perhaps we can find a place and time to meet and talk about EACT. Either write to me at my PO. Box or call 516 444 2929; I am at the University most mornings until 1 pm. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Chongcheng, Xue Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-065 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/c15e083d093409740ecb11e9cee0901c.pdf 915d46100379ff9e52d19d880c102ef4 PDF Text Text March 12, 1991 Dear , I have been a faculty member of the Health Sciences Center at Stony Brook since 1973, and I am well acquainted with the important work of the scientists at the Nathan 8. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. I knew Nate Kline well, and it was his pioneering studies of antidepressant drugs that led to our present psychopharmacologic revolution in the care of the severe mentally ill. He was an important asset to the mentally ill of the State, with many creative and novel innovations which served our patients and fellow citizens very well. Institute that carries his name has continued his and I am writing to encourage you to restore the funding of this Institute. It is only through clinical research, of the kind being done at the Institute, that we can ever hope to improve the lot of the thousands of severe mentally ill that populate our State hospitals. The excellent work, I was involved in the closing of the Long Island Research Institute in 1983. That closing resulted not only in the loss of the research studies, but in a decline in the services to the patients at Pilgrim State, Kings Park, and Central Islip Psychiatric Centers. never recovered. We, in Suffolk County, Please do not allow another important creative research asset to be destroyed. Re-instate the budget of the Institute. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Cuomo, Honorable Mario M. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/8900e715050f5d812cbcbe36cd234771.pdf 246e524c1d8b783ba72b98d71a69f763 PDF Text Text Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Health Sciences Center State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-8101 telephone: (516) 444-2929 StonyBrook / > Post-It” brand fax transmittal memo/2671 |#of pages F /" M, Fjdx 10%, Farr/14a n 1 Co. Dept Fax # \v 3/3 #2.? If)”; / FAX: (516) 444—7534 Co. Phone# Fax # m5; . ,_ U'lk-a: L. wisp/‘3 ”or.“I“: .Vg-«féz F! (F March 14, 1991 To Whom It May Concern, Dr. Mark Fettman has been invited to attend ECT treatments and ward rounds at this Department at Univeristy Hospital on March 20-22, 1991. I look forward to his visit. Sincer 1y M.“ yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry Attending Psychiatrist University Hospital � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Ferrman, ? Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-060 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a8ba2a285666d17892e540acb96b0eb1.pdf 7200f8e7693fd94dba99cb61728cc6f7 PDF Text Text March 18, 1991 Harry Prosen, M.D. Chairman, Department of Psychiatry Medical College of Wisconsin 9455 Watertown Plank Road Milwaukee, WI 53226 Dear Dr. Prosen, is with pleasure that I write this letter It behalf of DONALD P. HAY, M.D., in of his of recommendation promotion to the rank of Associate Professor. I have known Don for the past four years in his research and writing on ECT and geriatric psychjiatry, and in his work with the Association for Convulsive Therapy. As Editor of Convulsive Therapv, I have often asked his advice about the suitability of articles submitted to the journal, and we have published some of his case material. He has an active clinical practice from which he has abstracted his experience in a useful teaching fashion. He has an interest in education, and has been an active member of numerous psychiatric organizations. He is willing to assume responsibility, and has been elected Executive Director of the Association for Convulsive on support Therapy in 1989. is a dedicated, enthusiastic, empathic, and intelligent psychiatrist. He has a well organized mind, knows the literature, and is exceptionally sophisticated with regard to ECT and the special problems of the treatment of the elderly. He speaks well at meetings, command and Don has a good of teaching techniques. I am pleased to recommend his promotion to the rank of Associate Professor of Psychiatry, and do so with enthusiasm. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Prosen, Harry Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-059 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/b91ecc3a447780fdbf12cea7941ffa87.pdf 832148cc819bf1da265b5eeb94f4bc5e PDF Text Text April 5, 1991 Ms. Rita Scheman Raven Press 1185 Avenue of the Americas New York City 10036 Dear Rita, am responding to your request for advice regarding the publication of the 1990 ACNP Satellite Conference proceedings on the development of new antipsychotic medications. am well acquainted with the organizers of the meeting and with most of the participants. believe that this symposium was Sandoz-supported (possibly with contributions from other drug manufacturers). As such, the main thrust was an exposure by laboratory researchers of their newest putative antipsychotic entities. These substances have been selected for their similarities in pharmacology to that of clozapine, which is being touted as a major advance in psychopharmacology [which it is not]. I I I As is generally true for such proceedings, the better material will be published in refereed journals; the material in the book will be either re-hashes or so preliminary that it would usually not pass muster before responsible editors. To answer your specific queries: 1. no comment 2. No. 3. Yes. 4. No. It is not clear from the outline for whom such a book would be intended. Libraries are cutting back on their purchases, and if were asked by my librarian, would surely not approve the purchase of such a melange. Especially, if had to choose between such books and journal subscriptions (as have been asked each of the past two years). presume the main market is the researchers themselves (and their mothers) and industry libraries. Such a market seems limited, and such a book will probably require considerable subvention. I I I l I �Ms. Rita Scheman Page 2 Two attitudes regarding publication seem reasonable. A non-judgmental attitude would argue that such preliminary material may stimulate research and eventually lead to new drug therapies. But the critical publisher would know that the best material, the most illuminating and stimulating, will be published in the main journals, and that nothing will be lost by denying this publication in a book form, with limited distribution and limited (to no) indexing. A more cynical attitude may also be taken. Since these articles were selected with the support and encouragement of the pharmaceutical industry, and since the industry will gain the most benefit from such a book [they will surely peddle it to the FDA and their Boards of Directors as evidence of ’scientific’ validity], there is no reason why Raven Press should not publish the book provided the industry guarantees the purchase of sufficient copies for their use and distribution, or a sufficient subvention to justify this type of selfadulatory and limited interest publication. I trust these comments are helpful. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Scherman, Rita Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-057 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/6f5f30c0c6d17baa3175ea3dbe192f90.pdf ca3fc8d9ff4963af2b7a38edbe693656 PDF Text Text April 19, 1991 Dr. J .A.G. Watt Gartnaval Royal Hospital Psychiatric Services 1055 Great Western Road Glasgow G12 OXH United Kingdom Dear Dr. Watt, You suggest that two groups be studied, one of major depressed of the mild type and another of dysthymia of 6 months to 2 years duration. Alas, you will not be justified to use ECT in either population. For depressives of mild type, you will surely exclude those with melancholia, psychosis, and suicidality precisely the best candidates for ECT. As for dysthymics, such as are identifiable are those who are chronically ill, for durations measured in years or decades, and who in the older days, were identified as ’neurotic’ or ’reactive’ depressed. Surely, not candidates for ECT. -— ECT remains a treatment for severely ill patients, those who are hospitalized or who warrant hospitalization. Any study which suggests its use in those with lesser degrees of illness will be difficult, in our society at least. As for power calculations, these are quite easy. If delusional depressed are selected, the success with ECT will bhe 60-80%, with any antidepressant alone, less than 30%; a power calculation will find about 30 patients in each cell will do nicely. Good luck in your studies. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-2-055 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/3f9391ce03f0f11af21365b421fb0c61.pdf 0e8579cdaab5a06cffb984a1fcd0f126 PDF Text Text gm January 20, 1990 Dear Stan, I enclose copies of the and my reply. He letter plans to attend the APA I received from Bernard Lerer meetings in New York in May and should he write to you, I hope that you will be willing to meet with him. you well know, the Department totters along, rather direction-less. Its academic standard remains poor, and our resident pool is even poorer. I made one pitch to the Dean in September to suggest an external review of the Department, and was rebuffed. He argued that he had more important problems on his plate. As My own work continues to be accepted. We have a fine ECT unit and each year one or two residents take electives with me. We have one of the two postgraduate training programs in ECT in the U.S. The journal CONVULSIVE THERAPY is thriving. On lO-North we have two good clinical projects in progress-- a random assignment study of ECT and drug therapies as maintenance therapies for patients who complete a course of ECT; and a therapeutic trial of ECT in patients with parkinsonism. for any help you can give Beni Lerer. He is a who has moved to a Left Bank settlement, with and very good co-workers. head scientific Thank you dedicated orthodox Israeli an excellent My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Stan Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-053 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/49ea001b51991aab767ee166a4fac296.pdf c8f000ac04e37810bdc32b5a68afaf43 PDF Text Text January 30, 1990 Morton Miller, M.D. Lahey Clinic Medical Center 41 Mall Road Burlington, MA 01805 Dear Mort, I was delighted to get your letter. I have known child and have watched her Julie with pleasure. If she has the progress in her schooling would ask her if she believes she can do qualifications, I she the job; if says she can, I would hire her immediately. I enclose a description of the two ECT videotapes. The one for patients and their families describes the benefits and risks, to allow for 'informed consent'. The one for professionals is more technical and seeks to answer the questions most often raised at meetings about the ECT process. The tapes are widely used. Last year, Leon Grunhaus at the University of Michigan made a similar consent tape. These are the only tapes available commercially. The ECT service is doing well. I have two 4th year Balaban since she was a fellows who are working on good projects. We are randomly assigning ECT patients to continuation ECT or drug therapies; treating parkinson patients (without depression) with ECT; studying the psychopathology of catatonia (following the models of Taylor and Abrams); and continuing the treatment of schizophrenic patients ('positive symptom psychosis') with ECT and fluphenazine combined. We often see patients with 'the Miller sign', and every few weeks we diagnose manic delirium or acute catatonia. We have also treated some 'reversible dementia' (pseudo-dementia) cases with reasonable success. Only Nisson Schechter remains at HSC from the old days (and Richard Friedman and Pierre Hahn in C Building). I called Stan last week to get some advice about Israel and he was helpful and seemed to be bothered little by aphasia. Thank you for your kind regards. Martha and our children are well. We continue to work, despite reaching retirement age, since we still enjoy teaching. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Miller, Morton Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-052 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. 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While have editorial critiques with some of the remarks -- they may be improved with a few deft editorial amendments, am neither dismayed nor turned off nor unhappy with their publication. | I I Indeed, if could write like Russell Baker would attempt to use such style to get some messages across. For example, at the APPA meetings this week, some players argued that the diagnosis of schizophrenia could not be made with any assurance since more than 40% of the known schizophrenics in a carefully studied sample changed their behavior (and the resulting diagnosis) in follow-up studies; while others asked for 10 million dollars annually to find the gene of schizophrenia! Such a ridiculous situation cries for humorous treatment since no logical arguments seem to make a dent. I I While it is not usual for ’scholarly’ journals to include pieces by the likes of Russell Baker, many do include articles that are not ’straight science’. recall (with some pleasure) the JAMA section "Piece of My Mind"; the BMJ commentaries by Minerva; Lancet’s ’Occasional Notes’; and Dick Shader’s jokes as part of the J. clin. Psychopharmacology. These complement the solid science of these journals, and as a reader, I enjoy these interludes as much (occasionally more than) the straight science. made some marginal Editor’s notes on each of the articles; these are attached for your use. I My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Fellow Editor A I � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-048 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/4382b7192ab791f8a0fdfa112744a3ba.pdf 568949eb20a50640318b658eb9f2733a PDF Text Text March 21, 1990 Fridolin Sulser, M.D. Vanderbilt University School of Medicine AA-2215 Medical Center North Nashville, TN 37232 Dear Fridolin, am particularly pleased to nominate John M. Kane, MD. for membership in the CINP. John is now the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the Long Island Jewish-Hillside Hospital Medical Center. am very well acquainted with his work from his training with Donald Klein (1975-77), his leadership of the Research Department of Hillside Hospital (1977-1987), and his active membership in our Department of Psychiatry at Stony Brook (1977-1989). I I John is a dedicated clinical and theoretic researcher with special interests schizophrenia, antipsychotic drugs, and tardive dyskinesia. His studies of the relative efficacy and safety of high and low dose fluphenazine provide the best data on dosage, efficacy, and safety of antipsychotic drugs. These studies led to prospective studies of the incidence of tardive dyskinesia, and here again, his studies provide the most substantive data on the incidence of TD, and the risks associated with dosing, time of exposure, age, gender, and diagnosis. With Herb Meltzer, he is a principal investigator of the efficacy and safety of clozapine in therapy resistant psychotic patients and is credited with convincing the FDA to re-introduce clozapine in clinical practice. Finally, he is the principal investigator of an NlMH clinical schizophrenia research center, which is carrying out useful clinical and laboratory studies of a well studied cohort of schizophrenic patients. in He became a full professor at SUNY at Stony Brook in 1985, an honor that is sought by many and achieved by few. John is a fine clinician and able administrator. His publication record is excellent and his standards are the highest. His promotion to chairmanship provides him with one of the best clinical services for research and am confident that he will continue to make important contributions to biological research. He is a consultant and leader at the NlMH, ACNP, and the American Psychiatric Association. I commend him for membership in the ClNP with much enthusiasm and without reservations. I My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sulser, Fridolin Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-043 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/ab9ff63721aefc6b2a264bbaee0df463.pdf 61784ec6d3a51ccab7a7ff20f36e8d45 PDF Text Text May 8, 1990 Richard Josiassen, Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry Medical College of Pennsylvania 3200 Henry Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19129 Dear Richard, Your questions are most intriguing, and hasten to argue my idiosyncratic views against the present drive to the study of anatomic structure as a basis for psychopathology. Since you limit the query to the past 25 years, I am precluded from arguing that the seminal studies of the century remain those of Wagner-Jauregg, Meduna, Weinstein and Kahn, Wikler and Martin. In the period requested, the most impressive studies have been those of Taylor and Abrams in identifying the syndrome of catatonia as associated as much with affective disorder as with schizophrenia (which effectively vitiated the logic of DSM-lll); the genetic identical twin studies in London which found both schizophrenia and affective disorder among genetically identical siblings (which effectively discredited the present genetic studies); and which led to the unitary hypothesis of psychosis of Timothy Crow. I would credit Shagass with the best of modern patient classification devices, the sedation threshold; DeWied and others for discerning that brain peptides have behavioral effects; and the work of the unheralded chemists who developed naloxone, providing the basis for a life-saving technique in clinical medicine. From psychopharmacology, I Your second query is even more intriguing. can more easily answer the question about the two or three most damaging hypotheses underlying the biological understanding of psychopathology. For example, the belief held by many in neuroscience (and the ACNP and NIMH as well) that studies of rat brains will lead to an understanding of psychopathology is clearly wrong. Rats are not men; rat physiology and pharmacology is readily distinguishable from that of man. Further, normal man is not the same as sick man, since it is the differences induced by illness that are the basis for our interest. Similarly, it is silly to assume that studies of the normal rat bear any relation to mentally sick I man. �the same vein, the genetic and structural hypotheses of psychopathology are old theories, espoused in the 19th century, and probably as wrong now as they were then, albeit we have better ways to picture the structures of the brain. In were to argue for the hypotheses that are outside the mainstream, that may lead to an understanding of the bases of psychopathology in brain function, would point to that model of psychopathology which argues (from the diabetes and neurosyphilis experiences) that the expression of psychopathology is the end product of a stressor (g9, spirochaete or hypo-insulinemia) and its interaction in a psychological substrate (ggq ego and superego; or character and personality; or memory and emotional patterns as modified by life If I I expeﬁence) This view is best stated as the unitary hypothesis of psychosis. The best example of this view is the case for catatonia (primary and secondary; malignant and NMS) as a general brain disorder not part of schizophrenia, and one that is highly responsive to ECT. That some patients with dementia praecox exhibit signs of catatonia is not unlikely, given the high probability that catatonia is an endocrine deficiency disorder. Another support comes from observations that ECT is equally effective in treating mania and depression, with or without psychosis, with or without melancholia, with or without catatonia; with or without dementia (’pseudodementia’). This varied effectiveness is often cited as an example of the ’dirty’ nature of ECT; view it rather as an example of the specificity of ECT and the ’dirty’ nature of our psychopathology. (Recall the varieties of neurosyphilis in this context.) I These views are outside the mainstream. That is why I continue to be intrigued by them, since I ’know’ (from history), that the pack is usually wrong. And the present neuroscience pack is surely wrong since few, if any, have any experience If in the clinic. you wish a concise view of catatonia, urge you to read the recent I review by Taylor in NNPBN. best regards to Charlie, whose work with the sedation threshold have long admired, but still cannot comprehend. My Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry l � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-037 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1990 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/e7e6d2a07398c78b0ea01ec26ce0a8a0.pdf 4b25af69243523f3c2587a46ac34bf70 PDF Text Text / 32f gé;;$ﬁxf June 11, 1990 Layton McCurdy, M.D. American Board of Neurology & Psychiatry Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital Street 111 N. 49 Philadelphia, PA 19139 Dear Dr. McCurdy, Like many of my peers, I am writing with regard to the proposed Qualification in Neurophysiology" which is considered for physicians qualified in Neurology. By excluding those qualified in Psychiatry, I believe that the Board is inadvertently excluding a large number of very qualified practitioners whose skills and interest in "Added electrophysiology complement those of their neurologic peers. referring to those psychiatrists with interests in quantitative EEG in assessing the effects of psychoactive drugs; those specializing in the analysis of sleep EEG recordings; and those interested in multi—lead EEG recordings in assessing patients with affective illness who may be candidates for anticonvulsant therapies. I am certified both in neurology psychiatry, my work in pharmaco-electroencephalography is clearly of little interest to my neurologic colleagues, but is central to a whole discipline in psychopharmacology and psychiatry. Similarly, the work of my associate, Wallace Mendelssohn in sleep studies, which is an important asset in our While I am and psychiatric assessments. Clinical psychiatry has undergone at least three major revolutions in my professional lifetime-— from the psychodynamic era in which I was trained at the William Alanson White Institute; to the era of psychopharmacology; then the excitement about neuroscience; and now the return to our interest in neuropsychiatry. By limiting the Iadded qualification’ to that small group of practitioners who meet the criteria for Neurology would be a disservice both to clinical practice and to research opportunities which are now unfolding. hope that the Board will see the wisdom of either not added qualification in neurophysiology to neurologists, or doing away with the added qualification in its entirety. I limiting the Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry ABPN (P54) (N52) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/2b1a580b29184059eef2ddf367601c7d.pdf 7d8c63c237066cb1788868f379edc922 PDF Text Text August 5, 1990 Credentials Committee Medical Staff Affairs Office Box 0208, M-181 San Francisco, CA 94143 Gentlemen: I am writing this letter regarding privileging in electroconvulsive therapy, at the request and on behalf of Professor REESE T. JONES, Professor of Psychiatry at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute and the University of California at San Francisco. I have known Reese since the late 19605 when we were both interested in research into cannabis. His electrophysiologic studies paralleled my own, and we met frequently at national and international meetings, and national committees of NIMH and NIDA, to talk about our work. Reese is a sophisticated and experienced clinician, clinical pharmacologist, electrophysiologist, and researcher. My interest in ECT goes back to 1952. NIMH supported studies of ECT at Hillside Hospital and the New York Medical College led to numerous publications in ECT; organizing a conference and publishing a book on the Psychobiology of Convulsive Therapy (1974); a text Convulsive Therapy: Theory and Practice (1979); and chief editorship of the quarterly journal CONVULSIVE THERAPY since 1985. I was a member of the 1975-1978 APA Task Force on ECT, edited many of the chapters of the 1978 report; and again, a member of the latest APA Task Force which just published The Practice of ECT: Recommendations for Treatment, Training and Privileging (1990). Since 1988, we at Stony Brook have developed a ’hand-on’ training course in ECT for practitioners, one of only two in the nation. For the past five years, I have been director of the ECT Service at Stony Brook, with full responsibility for privileging the professional staff in ECT. (Fritz Henn, M.D., Ph.D., the Department chairman, is among those privileged in ECT during the past few years.) Sometime in 1989 Reese called to ask if he could come to Stony Brook for training in ECT, as he was asked to re-establish a program in ECT at the Langley Porter Institute. I agreed. In December, 1989 we met at the ACNP meetings, reviewed his knowledge and experience, and based on that information I laid out a 3-day program at Stony Brook which would meet the new guidelines of the APA Task Force report. He invited me to San Francisco to meet the staff, visit the facilities, and lecture on ECT. I did so on April 3-4, 1990. I was impressed with the staff interest in ECT, met with the residents and made ward rounds, finding three patients for whom ECT was clearly a legitimate option in treatment. One was presented in a staff conference. �Reese joined me at Stony Brook for three full days of teaching, on May 2, 3, and 4. I arranged for patients to be treated each of those days. His schedule included ’hands-on’ treatment of 12 patients, some with unilateral and some with bilateral placement; monitoring of seizure duration by cuff, heart rate, and EEG; monitoring of ECG, blood oxygen, blood pressure, and heart rate; and the determination of the degree of motor paralysis using a muscle stimulator. We also demonstrated the seizure enhancing properties of caffeine; inductions with and without glycopyrollate; anesthesia with methohexital and etomidate; modification of blood pressure using trimethaphan; and blocking of a prolonged seizure using diazepam. We discussed, for each case, the basis for the selection of energy, electrode placement, frequency of treatment, and number of treatments. For our out-patients, we reviewed the process of continuation and maintenance treatments, using drugs and/or ECT. We also discussed the role and merits of concomitant psychoactive drug use. In addition, Reese made rounds each morning, interviewing each patient on my service (about 15). We discussed the indications for ECT, how we develop a risk/benefit analysis for each case to determine the suitability of ECT. We reviewed the pre-treatment work-up including laboratory tests and the aims of consultations with medicine, anesthesiology, and dentistry. In the afternoons, Reese was in didactic sessions with my associates and myself. He worked with our ECT nurse, Mrs. Irene Carasiti, and participated in the discussions and videotape session which makes up our informed consent process.I gave him a pre-print copy of the 1990 APA Task Force report; we discussed the changes from the 1978 report; reviewed the main items of patient selection, determination of risks and tactics to minimize risk; and the thorny problems of training and privileging. In didactic sessions, we reviewed issues of consent, mechanisms of action of ECT, electrophysiology and cardiovascular physiology, and anesthetic considerations. At the time Reese left, we were both exhausted. I was delighted with his knowledge and understanding. We had covered and met all the guidelines of the new APA recommendations. I am pleased to recommend Reese Jones for privileges in ECT; with endorsement for routine treatments as well as the treatment of high-risk, medically ill patients. Sincerelyn yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry Attending Psychiatrist, University Hospital � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Committee Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-028 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/6a295bb06c824ad53f11c6c3def3eac5.pdf 0a301532cd63c842d2ad19b1557591c2 PDF Text Text «~/ August 5, 1990 Reese T. Jones, M.D. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute 401 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco, CA 94143 Dear Reese, Fritz met me at the cafeteria on Friday and shared the story of your dilemma, so your letter was not a total surprise. I am delighted to write a supporting document, and attach it to this note. I will send these by Fax, and the original will be sent directly to the committee. Yes, Fritz has ’eliminated’ an ECT Service, and yes, he thinks he is Jesus reincarnated, and he does not realize he has taken a first-class department under Stan Yolles and created a pseudo-neurosciece program with hardly a single psychiatric redeeming feature. No wonder our resident applicants are mainly from off-shore schools. But the elimination was accompanied by a substantial raise in my salary and no additional duties, so after being upset for a few weeks, I have settled down to treating my ’private’ referrals. The shift gives me a chance to look, once again, at my pharmaco-EEG experience, an experience which I have neglected for some time in favor of ECT. I hope the letter is helpful. Let me know if there is more that I can do. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-027 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/43cb95c485cae9f2dbe308edc060e8ca.pdf 86a1350480a33a37a3ba5c208bfe53a3 PDF Text Text Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Health Sciences Center State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-8101 StOﬂYBrOOk telephone: (516) 444-2929 August 23, 1990 Stephen Koslow, MD. and Herman van Praag, M.D. Chairmen, Credentials Committee ACNP Vanderbilt University Nashville TN 37235 Dear Steve and Herman, It is with great pleasure that I submit this letter in support of the admission of HAROLD SACKEIM, Ph.D. to membership in the ACNP. I have known Harold for about a decade, first meeting him when he in academic research in the neuropsychology of perception. He interest expressed an used ECT as a way to modify brain function, and did so intelligently. He joined Sidney Malitz at the New York State Psychiatric Institute where he developed the nation’s strongest research program in ECT. We have worked together on the APA Task Force on Electroconvulsive Therapy and on the editorial board of CONVULSIVE THERAPY. Harold is an outstanding neuropsychologist, a direct descendent (conceptually speaking) of Joseph Zubin, Richard Wittenborn, Conan Kornetsky, and other SOphisticated psychologists who did so much to make the ACNP a scientific organization with holistic interests. Harold has a detailed knowledge of neuropsychology and electrophysiology. He is an expert in perception, memory function, anti-amnesic drugs, cerebral physiology (cerebral blood ﬂow and SPECT, to be specific), statistics, and the psychopathology of affective disorders. He first came to the attention of the research community in his innovative studies of the role of facial asymmetry in the manifestation and perception of expressed emotion. He has made important contributions to our knowledge in ECT; specifically, in the role of the stimulus in treatment response, and on the physiologic and memory effects of different dosages and electrode placements. The ongoing studies of cerebral blood flow and SPECT are promising to add more information on its mechanism of action. His clinical skills in interviewing and diagnosis are excellent. He is friendly, warm, enthusiastic, and an extraordinarily hard worker. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Koslow, Stephen Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-025 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/0fc23ab1f70de9ea06b813c78dc35241.pdf 53ecd1d1e5e4bb8b818b992e3c0c1515 PDF Text Text December 12, 1990 Walter Sannita, M.D. Institute for Neurophysiopathology University Hospital San Martino I-l6l32 Italy GENOA Dear Walter, that we on obtaining support for a stay in the U.S. I hope work out an arrangement that will be useful for you. can First, congratulations details, such as the proposed dates and duration of the stay; and needs; and projects you may wish to investigate. If a study your expectations has a clinical component, approval must be obtained from the appropriate committees, and that may take up to four months, so any work done in advance is critical. Separately, I will send you copies of ongoing protocols as examples of what may be I need more of interest. I have a young Israeli psychologist/Fellow working in the laboratory, and senior resident has asked to work with me later in the year. The Fellow is a interested in ECT; the resident is spending two months with Itil learning the H21 system. Perhaps the three of you (and a technician and our equipment) could answer some interesting questions. letter I have no problem with the presentation at the AACNP, but neither your nor that from Bodis-Wollner give the specific dates. When? I have received an unusual letter in Italian from a Roman psychiatrist in response to a paper that I wrote last year for an Italian audience. I asked one of my residents to translate it, and it seems to relate a pathetic story about a criminal indictment for a death associated with ECT. Because the details are critical, I would be grateful if you would provide a valid translation so that I can understand the nuances of the events. Also, can you advise me whether a reply is warranted or expected? Is Dr. Gherardini asking (implicitly) for help or advice? Do you know of him, or can you obtain an opinion as to his status in his community? New My regards to Titty and your daughters (I assume you plan to bring My best regards. York?) Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry all to � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Sannita, Walter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-018 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/ef995c85e1f87cb39dc0a57729d9667a.pdf d48d7154730e6266259cff2acb718d44 PDF Text Text December 22, 1990 Dr. Gian Francesco Gherardini Via di Grottarossa 1282 Rome, Italy Dear Dr. Gherardini, for your letter of November 2, which arrived two weeks translated to better understand the message. It is the that patient had such a poor outcome. A severe response to regretful known, since it is neurotoxic and its use is often haloperidol is with associated dystonia, parkinsonism, akathisia, and the neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS). The case material suggests that he had a severe NMS. ECT is described as effective in NMS, as well as in catatonia, so it is unclear why society is criticizing your treatment decisions. Thank you which and I had ago rise in temperature following each ECT may reflect a persistent effect of haloperidol. The sequence of events after the onset of status epilepticus is The puzzling. What was the etiology of status? (It is not a feature of ECT which is essentially anti-epileptic since it raises seizure thresholds.) Did the patient receive additional neuroleptic medications? picture Patients with lupus erythematosus may develop a catatonic status epilepticus. Was the patient tested for lupus? and Is there something that you believe we can do to help in your defense? Thank you again for bringing this interesting case to my attention. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Gherardini, Gian Francescio Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-017 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/bda54ad4ca0d50f419d02adba1250c6c.pdf 5b3dd8e21bcec32efbc9836727c426c0 PDF Text Text December 24, 1990 Richard Weiner, M.D., Ph.D. Department of Psychiatry Duke University MedicaI Center P.0. Box 3920 Durham NC 27710 Dear Rich, Ever since I read the report by Xue ’eIectro—acupuncture convuIsive therapy’, I have possibiIity. Dr. Xue was in Canada Iast year but return to China. He is trying to visit again. He which I am unabIe to provide. Chongcheng in 1985 on been intrigued by its failed to teII needs Perhaps you couId find a way to encourage his through Duke University or the APA? My best wishes for a happy and me untiI his Ietters of invitation, visit, either healthy 1991. Sincerer yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Weiner, Richard D. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-016 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/a61cd63ca6580223dd0274fb220cf311.pdf a80ac130030cad7f4c584e38d2bc15a6 PDF Text Text December 23, 1990 Xue Chongcheng, M.D. Institute of Acupuncture 3 Haiyuacang Beijing and Moxibustion 100700 China Dear Dr. Xue, for your Tetter of November 29, indicating that you have permission to visit the United States. You ask for a Tetter of invitation. I am unabTe to write a letter to request your attendance at our Thank you University. research units studying ECT in the United States where I beTieve you could demonstrate EACT remain those of Dr. Richard Neiner at Duke University (P.0. Box 3920, Durham NC 27710 USA); Drs. Haron Sackeim and Sidney MaTitz at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (722 West 168 Street, NYC 10032); and Dr. Richard Abrams at the UHS/Chicago MedicaT SchooT The main (3333 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL 60064). Of these, Dr. Neiner is aTSo chairman of the American Psychiatric Association Task Force on ETectroconvuTsive Therapy, and as such, has direct connections with the Committee on InternationaT ReTations of the Association. Shoqu you come to the U.S. and techniques, pTease have your host caTT me. I EACT in practice. My be able to demonstrate your every effort to see wiTT make regards. SincereTy yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Chongcheng, Xue Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-032-1-015 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/fb5e56e3ac073354df608a85537ed1ea.pdf 622c54a62948abddd73e6a6c4f491877 PDF Text Text StOﬂYBIOOk Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science Health Sciences Center State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York 11794-8101 telephone: (516) 444—2929 June 15, 1989 Mr. Wolfgang Kudrnofsky ORF ORF Centrum Vienna, Austria Dear Mr Kudrnofsky, It is clearly difficult to communicate at this distance. While I would like to be cooperative, it is difficult to do so. We are not a source of film or video materials, but we are members of an academic department of psychiatry at a medical school. As such, we have collected some materials for our students and teaching, and have, at these available to others, including radio and television. We do not do so for stated fees, but will cooperate if the objective is within our missions as educators. As such, we ordinarily serve as consultants. As such, we usually obtain our satisfaction in our teaching, and to a lesser extent in the fees for our time. From time to time, we have been asked to allow the media to film our patients, before, during, and after treatment. We generally are able to obtain patient and family cooperation and for such efforts we generally ask that they be paid at prevailing commercial acting or consulting rates. If you wish our help, you or one of your associates should discuss the details of your proposed programming, and we visit us to be will try to responsive as to what we can provide. times, made Singzzzjy .4 Fink, yours, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �7.. _ - I [- ' " ‘ "W“ 7 mw‘l‘w‘wmvv'nw-mm”m‘ r..me .mvr . .r—WW- nrw—w' m“ - / H J ’m V—m"'w aura—w“ -1.“ , , V . . .... .;,.,... .. j. u- .. .. w V— w , u—v «a “Nu-rm. :.'wrw"mwm"—tyrw-p—rwm // April 10, 1989 Dr. Wolfgang Kudrnofsky Gsterreichischer Rundfunk Wiirzburggasse 30 1136 VIENNA AUSTRIA Dear "Dr. Kudrnofsky, Over the years I have collected documentaries of ECT and Metrazol shock therapy, and recently I made some videotapes for my students and patients. Our materials have been used by the major American television networks and BBC. The source of the older material is diverse and the quality fair to poor. It would be necessary to see the material and if any is of interest, we can then decide on how best to get consent from the sources for your reproduction. The recent material is also diverse. 1 have academically made 'teaching' tapes, some abstracts of commercial tapes, case material of interviews of patients before and after ECT, and finally, two commercially made videotapes developed as teaching tools for our students and our patients. For our patients, the tapes are used in obtaining 'informed' consent for electroshock therapy. It would be useful to know what use is planned for these materials; the anticipated size of the audience; number of reproductions; whether you are requesting our tapes for your editing, or whether our participation in the presentation is also requested. —- 1 do not have lobotomy or insulin coma films but am acquainted with of sources old films, made for teaching purposes. can be reached most mornings at 516-4“; 2929; and most afternoons and evenings at 516 862 6651. Our FAX is 516-4“ 753$. I Thank you for your inquiry. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �May 23, 1939 Dr. Wolfgang Kudrnofsky Osterreichischer Rundfunk Wiirzburggasse 30 1136 VIENNA AUSTRIA Dear Dr. Kudrnofsky, it is not clear from your FAX of 12 May what more i can tell you. Videotape of new material (ECT) made in the last few years is available. The older material of insulin coma and Metrazol is on film. We are not a commercial source of educational material. As an academic institution, we use educational materials as part of our teaching and consultations. We have worked often with producers and educators to develop teaching programs, and if you wish us to work together, please outline the aims of the project. The expenses and fees for such consultation depends on the demands in time and effort. 1 am not sure that we can obtain lobotomy films but there are some sources if the program requires specific footage. that we can try Since rely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Kudrnofsky, Wolfgang Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-180 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/22ad88b8927049cd3680038cd249d721.pdf 3baf7cb470b6b489fd019ade613a5639 PDF Text Text {K'w June 25, 1989 Mr. Bruce Williams Associate Product Manager Asendin amoxapine Lederle Laboratories Plaza One Cyanamid Wayne, New Jersey 07470 Dear Mr. Williams, I am a supervising psychiatrist at University Hospital at Stony Brook. Your recent 'Dear Doctor' letter describing the efficacy of Asendin in patients with delusional depression was brought to my attention by one of my residents. I am not acquainted with the specific articles on which this claim is based. I would be grateful for citations (and reprints if from foreign literature) of any prospective, well controlled, comparative studies of Asendin against the combination of an antipsychotic and an antidepressant drug in hospitalized delusional depressive patients. Are there any reports of the use of Asendin in comparison to electroconvulsive therapy in hospitalized delusional depressed patients? Thank you for your cooperation and help. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Williams, Bruce Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-176 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/398a9888bb04b9dd29702d2b5bd4ed20.pdf 6401dff98d084ba6cb4059b58c432554 PDF Text Text July 31, 1989 Muriel Young, M.D. E-43 SK-Beecham 1500 Spring Garden Philadelphia, PA Street 19101 Dear Dr. Young, produces a systematic amnesia which is proportional to patient age, frequency and number of treatments, electrode placement, intensity of currents, waveform, and associated medications. The amnesia is reversible, with an improvement in time after the last treatments such that patients no longer show measurable deficits from 6-12 weeks after the last treatment. There are some patients, however, who consistently complain of amnestic disturbances and these have been associated with specific currents and electrode placements, and some modified frequencies of treatment (like multiple treatments in one ECT session). The animal model (Electroconvulsive shock- ECS) has an extensive literature as the effects of drugs on ECS induced amnesia in rats or mice is a standard pharmacological test for almost any psychoactive substance. In man, there have been systematic trials of some putative anti-amnestic agents on the ECT process, notably with pemoline (Cylert), ACTH 4-10 (ORG 2766), piracetam, etiracetam, vasopressin, and l-tryptophan. Many of the studies have been well designed with adequate controls, but the results have generally been disappointing, i.e., the effects on ECT induced amnesia have been modest. recent trial, a collaborative study of pramiracetam, has not yet been published or officially presented, but the 'grapevine newsletter' states that the experimental and control groups were not distinguishable in the effects on tests in a cognitive battery but that the experimental group fared The most better on improvement scores. �on hydergine and ECT in press in the J. Psychiatry finds an effect on improvement scores for the experimental group but not an effect on memory tests. A report is The ECT DATABASE a service of the CONVULSIVE THERAPY readers and authors. to its citations for memory enhancing, nootropic, elicited the citations which are attached. a basis for deciding whether the ECT and clin. editors of Culling the 4500 specific drugs These should give you model may be useful in the assessment of your compounds. As for the usage of ECT in the U.S., we lack any good assessment. The last measurement was done in 1977 by the APA Task Force; similar assessments were done in Great Britain in 1980 and Ireland in 1982. These find that usage is about 4.1 to 4.5 patients treated annually per 10,000 population. These figures should be corrected for the fact that ECT is rarely given to persons under 20 years of age, and more often in patients over 50 years of age. It is my impression that usage is increasing, although my impression may be faulty, resulting from the number of inquiries about ECT which I get each day. I trust these comments are useful. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, Editor cc: J.0. Cole M.D. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Young, Muriel Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-175 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/59ebe9fe4e14f8e1aecef66642c95c7c.pdf cd9178fe78a92752b2b8af2c148ac8ce PDF Text Text August 11, 1989 Dr. K. Stephan Arzneimittelforschung Kurfurstendamm 217 1000 Berlin 15 AFB GmbH in Berlin West Germany Dear Dr. Stephan, Thank you for the helpful translation of my report to the Austrian funding agency. It was most helpful and I have sent it on; hopefully it will serve to encourage their research interests. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �August 11, 1989 Edith Piroska Medizinisch-Wissenschaftlicher Fonds des Bﬁrgermeisters der Bundeshauptstadt Wien Ms. Schottenring 24 Austria Dear Ms. Piroska, was a pleasure to review the application of Dr. It Greta Koinig of the University of Vienna. My recommendations are attached, translated for your use. I hope these are helpful. Sincerely yours, 1010 Vienna, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �July 28, 1989 Werner Herrmann, M.D. Kurfurstendamm 217 1000 Berlin West Germany 15 Dear Werner, of being asked to I am in the embarrassing positionMedical Science review a grant application by the Austrian Foundation and not able to translate my report into intelligible German. The application and letter are in German (which apparently I can read easily enough), but I cannot get the die's der's correct -— Hence this request. Would you ask your secretary or into good, technical German translator to put the attached report and return it to me for retyping? I (and the Austrians) will be most grateful. and We are looking forward to your My best regards August. Except visit in the house, we a mess about for re—doing our kitchen and having month. unencumbered and home all be should and my thanks. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Stephan, K. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-174 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/e14f040c196080a0329eaf5814f82587.pdf 48a93840587bc251371e43c2c785e046 PDF Text Text November 13, 1989 Larry Koran, MD. Department of Psychiatry Stanford Medical Center Palo Alto, California 94305 Dear Larry, Two events brought your name to mind -- a letter from my son describing the devastation on the Stanford Campus by the recent earthquake, and the enclosed letter from Dr. Howard Fenn of the Palo Alto V.A. How did you fare during the quake? My son’s letter remarked that the geology buildings were closed and no one could get in to get their records, data, or computer files. At least not during the week after the quake. The enclosed letter came ’out of the blue’. Dr. Fenn seems to have thrown a bottled message into the US. post office maelstrom, and it landed on my desk. My reply is meant to encourage him to provide me with some data. Since my image of ECT at Stanford is that it hardly existed until you told me last year that you had (finally) stimulated its use, I was surprised by the letter. Do you know Dr. Fenn? Does he ’really’ have cases and the facility to treat? Is there a mature sponsor at the site? Meanwhile, our department of psychiatry has emerged, after six years of metamorphosis, into a department of neuroscience, focussed on brain cells, receptors, and genes. Our younger clinicians are all devoted laboratory scientists, with as much experience with rats, rat brain tissues, and chemicals, as with the mentally ill patients on 10 North. How is your ECT program progressing? My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Koran, Larry Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-168 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/58d596fba0a729dc977bafd45fe5fff4.pdf 904e19cd3c2647669f557b310efc9254 PDF Text Text November 13, 1989 Howard H. Fenn, M.D. Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit VA. Medical Center 3801 Miranda Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304 Dear Dr. Fenn, Many important clinical and theoretic issues in ECT are under active study, or deserve active study. The APA Task Force on ECT has prepared a report on The Practice of ECT: Recommendations for Treatment, Training and Privileging which is wending its way through the APA approval process, and should become public by May 1990. That report will provide useful guidelines for the decision to use ECT, the implementation of good practice, and encourage greater usage. The specific problems which may be usefully studied depend on the population sample (numbers, age, medical status), whether mainly in-patient or out-patient, and your specific interest. Some important issues are: Maintenance and continuation ECT: What is an optimal course of treatment? How can improvement be sustained? 1. 2. ECT and pharmacotherapy. The facilitation of antipsychotic drug activity by ECT has been demonstrated; what is the interaction of antidepressant drugs and ECT? 3. ECT in schizophrenia. The present enthusiasm for clozapine highlights the poor results with neuroleptics in patients with schizophrenia. The efficacy of clozapine is estimated at 30% in the best of hands. What is the efficacy of ECT in clozapine treated failures? 4. ECT in parkinsonism. Many parkinson patients have periods of incapacity alternating with relative comfort. The ’on—off’ phenomenon has been modified by ECT. We need prospective studies of ECT in parkinson patients with the ’on-off’ phenomenon. �These are some of the ideas under study in my laboratory. If you would describe your population in detail, with numbers of cases, diagnoses, age, and medical status; your experience with ECT and how the interest came about; the type of equipment available; and whether any senior clinicians are interested in supporting or encouraging such studies, I could be of more specific help in your research efforts. You may wish to subscribe to CONVULSIVE THERAPY. The journal is comnpleting its fifth year of publication. It has highlighted each of these issues, and many others of interest to the clinical and research communities. Thank you for your inquiry. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Editor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Fenn, Howard H. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-167 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/56425d8f1dab2e33d0d18ad7d04041ef.pdf eb0688e9e518e435dd2ebf52fb7f0f89 PDF Text Text November 28, 1989 Prof. Oded Abramsky Chief Scientist Israel Ministry of Health Jerusalem Dear Prof. Abramsky, I write this letter to encourage the application of Dr. Seth Kindler for support as a research scientist at Ezrath Nashim and the Hebrew University. I have known Dr. Kindler through his publications and his presentations at international psychiatric meetings. I have known his mentor, Prof. Lerer for more than a decade, and have been an enthusiastic supporter of their important research in electroconvulsive therapy and the receptor mechanisms in depression. Despite his youth, Dr. Kindler has an impressive record. He graduated the Hebrew Medical School in 1982, and in seven years, completed his formal psychiatric training, published important research findings, and developed laboratory and clinical skills. He seeks to combine these in studies of the neuroendocrine aspects of depressive disorders. I am particularly impressed with the importance of these studies for our understanding of the mechanism of action of ECT, a most useful treatment. Prof. Lerer has already contributed much to this knowledge. In 1980, Prof. Ottosson of Goteborg and I proposed a neuroendocrine theory of the mode of action of ECT. Much work has been done in the United States, Greece, the UK, and Israel on this theory. It remains Viable and I believe that Dr. Kindler’s research into serotonergic mechanisms is important in our progress. Few laboratories in the world are as well equipped and as interested in research in the affective disorders as those at Ezrath Nashim which I visited a few years ago. Under the leadership first of Prof. Belmaker and now Prof. Lerer, the studies have made important contributions to our knowledge. Any encouragement that can be given Prof. Lerer, as in the support of Dr. Kindler, should pay handsome dividends in research and in the position of Israeli research in world psychiatry. I congratulate the Ministry of Health on having such a promising opportunity to support important research. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry Editor, CONVULSIVE THERAPY � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Abramsky, Oded Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-165 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/24cd14ae9e1c62d24aa6e3c5a6a68bab.pdf ebee0840161bd15517be30268fa15e22 PDF Text Text STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT STONY BROOK SCHOOL OF MEDICINE - DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY November 27, 1989 Prof. Bernard Lerer Yaacov Herzog Center Ezrath Nashim P.O. Box 140 for Brain & P.O. BOX 457 ST. JAMES, N. Y. H780 P“0"”315W444-29l8 Psychiatry Research Jerusalem, Israel Dear Beni, Congratulations on your successful endeavors to a research center in Israel. The announcement which I received today carried two messages -- that Ezrath Nashim has a new research facility (an NMR or PETT scanner?) and that you are the new chairman of Psychiatry at Hebrew University. The second is a real coup, considering the perception that psychiatry at Hadassah has been social psychiatry. Good luck in your new ventures. I thank you for the establish announcement. THERAPY If think that a paragraph or two in CONVULSIVE describing your program in ECT research would be you helpful, send it on. My best to Ziona, who must be especially proud. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Lerer, Bernard Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-7-164 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/98445dafaacb22e4f51571eecfcb42a4.pdf 94a899ef38942c76a07112180f3d1325 PDF Text Text m: ww-n-a"m.1li wwwvw-y-rra-H van—spew W‘ .-...—- - ' ' :amrm'w -. vmﬂmnrmv WWW January 6, 1989 Shepard Kantor, M.D. 310 West 86 Street New York City 10024 Dear Shep, ..._...._.m,. ... it was good of you to send me the material on the role of oxygen-freeradicals (OFR's) in brain functions, and specifically in affecting the cognitive effects of ECT. I did not know these findings and so read them with much interest. There may be merit in your suggestion, but only systematic study (as you propose) will tease out the support for these views. My own laboratory is devoting its time to study the mechanisms of action of ECT, mainly the neuroendocrine effects of seizures, and it is not possible for us to deflect our energies to this interesting clinical question at this time. Thank you for sharing these interesting ideas. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-160 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/dbc2a4e31902f994edab18205d36d096.pdf 6b565a0501137c641183c20de27542df PDF Text Text W January 31, 1989 Michael Alan Taylor, M.D. UHS/Chicago Medical School 3333 Green Bay Road North Chicago, IL 6006!} Dear Mickey, At the request of Conrad Swartz, M.D., Ph.D., lam submitting this letter in support of his application for tenure. I have known Connie for about six years, mainly through his research and chiefly as an editor —- in reviewing Connie's submissions to psychiatric journals; and in his responses to my requests for reviews for CONVULSIVE THERAPY. l have observed his presentation of papers at national meetings, and have read many, if not all, of his recent publications. Connie is Well trained, intelligent, and innovative. As a graduate of the University of iowa training programs, he has the hallmarks of a hard-headed scientist, with a dedicated reliance on data. He has shown the ability to combine unusual mathematical and engineering skills with the skills of a physician. He has contributed materially to our understanding of the convulsive therapy process, to our knowledge of neuroendocrine mechanisms, and to lithium therapy. His studies of prolactin release and the formulation of a mathematical model to estimate the amount released under different interventions provides the best estimate of central re5ponses to seizures. indeed, the demonstration that the amount of prolactin released by seizures is influenced by electrode placement, current type, and current dose provides an excellent index of the strength of the stimulus in ECT. His suggestion for a better way to monitor lithium therapy is innovative and promises to be useful. His models of the TRH test also seem useful. The development of the audible EEG monitor for seizure duration is innovative. His breadth of interest is unusual. His studies are clinical, and apply his knowledge of statistics, mathematical models, pharmacokinetics, neuroendocrine systems, and alcoholism. Connie has achieved a fine national reputation for independent research with a firm mathematical and statistical base. He lectures and writes well although his style is prolix. He is highly intelligent and innovative, and is clearly a self-starter and very independent investigator. He would be a welcome member of our faculty, and i believe he has shown the skills not only to warrant his appointment as professor, but with tenure as well. My best regards. Since rely yours,, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-157 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/6d7c9b5fd32bfae2492b226c2c47adcb.pdf 655f5475ae0d3260e52c60201ad91920 PDF Text Text "w>l-wf*m-rm.vw-x—A-nm->47" .; m.- 5,2,4... ... “an. , .. (h February 15, 1989 Dr. Steven Bressler EEG Systems Laboratory 51 Federal Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Dear Dr. Bressler, would be pleased to collaborate and consult on your project "Neurocognitive Pattern Recognition of Drugs of Abuse". Studies of the effects of dependence producing psychoactive drugs, especially drugs used for recreational purposes, are timely. Our early studies which depended on quantitative com puterbased assessment of the electrical activity of single leads were productive, but were limited by their expense and technical difficulty. Recent achievements of multi-lead quantitative EEG assessment, such as those undertaken in your laboratory, corn pel the re-assessment you propose. i For your records, I enclose a cepy of my c.v. which details the studies of cannabis and opioids which i did with Jan Volavka, Peter Irwin, Rhea Dornbush, Costas Stefanis, and others while at the New York Medical College, 1966—1973. Citations to our pharmaco—EEG studies are also detailed. Good luck in your studies. Since rely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry IRS 11-2133166 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Bressler, Steven Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-156 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/73007ea9221daa3f6b1f0fb399f047af.pdf 623c4561d172f479afe93dd8b709e96b PDF Text Text w wu—u-wwmw-w-u-w WWW "aw—V... V'W‘,_W<vﬂ~w-v February 15, 1989 wry-v: vaw Paul Fink, MD. President, American Psychiatric Association 1400 K Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Dear Paul, This letter is in response to the story in Psychiatric News that the APA is seeking nominations for representatives to the ABPN. If I can be of service, I would be pleased to support the role of the ABPN in our teaching programs. My certification in psychiatry (1954) and neurology (1952) by the Board should be helpful, as should my graduation from the William Alonson White Psychoanalytic Institute. While my career and record are well known, 1 enclose a full c.v. for your review. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Fink, Paul Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-155 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1989 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/363d97eed310a87bf1c409aa71f1a161.pdf a936f9fb2b14a490dc54b4c5acdea106 PDF Text Text March ‘13, 1989 Lothar Kalinowsky, M.D. Klinik Dr. Dohrn Driesenstr. 10 8182 Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee West Germany Dear Lothar and Hilda, 1 Thank you for your kind note about the early days at the Psychiatric I do not know as yet how i will use it, but something will come up. Institute. L “M” i a 1 i i. i i 1 The APPA held a fine meeting earlier this month, with much emphasis on the anatomy of the "brain as the basis for mental disorders. Some of the speakers jumped from animals to man in a truly fantastic fashion. I am still not comfortable *wffﬁatﬁe st'Fon'g em pha51son neurosdence which now dominates psychiatry (especially in my department); it reminds me of the excesses of the psychoanalytic teaching which dominated my training and my years at Hillside Hospital. Too much of a good thing is still likely to unsettle one' s stomach. Tony O'Connell invited the associate editors of COMPREHENSIVE PSYCHIATRY to lunch and the discussion was interesting. The APPA is committed to publishing the papers of the annual meetings in separate volumes. These have poor sales, are not indexed in the national indices, and the published articles tend to get lost. We discussed the possibility of issuing a supplement to the journal for the articles, as well as asking the membership to subscribe to the journal as part of their annual dues. Both ideas were rejected by the officers -~ largely, I believe, because they want to have a 'book' edited by them. Also the APPA officers do not know Tony and probably would want to name one of their own to be editor. So, as each perceived the suggestions as threats, they were scuttled at its inception. The first issue of- CONVULSIVE THERAPY for 1989 was edited by Richard Abrams and is dedicated to "ECT in the High-~Risk Patient". is a special, larger issue which is very well done and it should be very helpful for teaching in the next few years. As] do not know whether your copy will be sent to you, I am enclosing one for your use. It My best regards and wishes for continued improvement. Sincerely you rs, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �V'- v “w‘mﬂw~ ‘ - -- v wimww ~MYwW—vuy .77 ‘VVWV. w... r~._—..—. "WW—”w wruva—‘mw—wv._._.._r 7—- ,, January 31, 1989 Lothar Kalinowsky, M.D. Klinik Dr. Dohrn Bad Wiessee am Tegernsee West Germany Dear Lothar and Hilda, Thank you for your very nice card, and the news that the Klinik is a fine one. am delighted. I < The next issue of CONVULSIVE THERAPY is now complete; it is dedicated to papers and reviews of the medical aspects of ECT. Dick Abrams has put it M-together, and is the issue editor. it will be put out as a regular issue-oi the journal, but also reprinted, supported by Dick's company, and distributed at the APA meeting in San Francisco. There will also be another special issue devoted to the mode of action of ECT, and this one is being put tOgether by Harold Sackeim for later this year. The American Medical Association has formally endorsed the use of ECT. print the resolution but it already has been discussed in the APA News. it is of the progress of ECT. sign a good We will ' Harold Sackeim told me that the Psychiatric institute is planning a special meeting in September honoring the 50th anniversary of the first use of ECT at the institute. It would be a timely topic to cover in our News at Notes section. What was it like in the early days at the Institute? In the early days in New York? I have the notes from the Abrams interview with you. Could you supplement these? Is there anyone else that I could interview to report the events of that period? 1 swoutd‘be =gald‘td put something together for your approval. Think on it; any notes or recollections would be most helpful. That is all for now. My best regards and wishes for continued improvement. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry . _ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/80ce492d137845378071f6618c026cec.pdf 8f6760288d0be779a9b6a3afddbf2014 PDF Text Text October 25, 1988 Mr. Peter Alexis, Executive Director Psychiatric Institute, Fort Worth 815 Eighth Avenue Fort Worth, TX 7610‘} Dear Mr. Alexis, In response to the inquiry by Ms. Robin Moore, I enclose the information requested. I know of no official standards for credentialling practitioners, nurses or anesthesiologists in electroconvulsive therapy. The American Psychiatric Association has a Task Force which is now considering guidelines of ECT treatment, privileging, and training; that report is due late in 1989. There are two academic programs for training practitioners in ECT; one under the supervision of C. E. Coffey and R. Weiner at Duke University, and the second under the supervision of L.’ Greenberg and myself at Stony Brook. Both are five-day, 'hands-on' courses, and carry CME credit hours. The Duke University program has a special course for nurses; we invite nurses and anesthesiologists to take part in our program. Many teaching materials are already available, including textbooks, videotapes, and journals. In our course, we provide these materials to our students as part of their fee. Some descriptions are enclosed for your use. The question of a visiting lecture series was raised. It is possible for a from our program to visit your hospital and lecture on ECT. Such member faculty is standard for us; I have just completed such a tour of the seven rather practice medical schools in the Netherlands. It is also possible to survey the standard of practice; examine the facilities and records of ECT; and to provide a report on the degree to which the program meets established standards of care (using the 1978 APA Task Force report as a guide; or the proposed guidelines when these appear). We can assist in preparing a manual of procedures for ECT at your facility. I was told that there are six PIA hospitals in Texas alone (and 52 in the nation). With that base, it should also be possible to develop a-special training program at one of your facilities, by importing two or three of the faculty from Stony Brook for a few days, to provide representatives from each of the PIA facilities with an opportunity to become acquainted with present standards of care. Fees for such services would be negotiated probably on theybafsi‘s‘ of the daily rates usually provided for consultations off-site; a copy of, those rates is attached. I trust these remarks are helpful.gG.ooEiM-luck in your efforts. Sincerely yours, J ﬁx.“ ~ V,» r; ' ‘_ ' Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Alexis, Peter Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-150 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/f22415d386b6ecb2869d26d6fdab130b.pdf b9d93283dea9d043c621a8d0337e5f97 PDF Text Text smmw“tn mus»:.-. ‘ ' , w“. , S e» c", , “mum -;~hw;'vyw7——wa' m-wamm. u —-—— ;.‘m' , , . -s—v—u March 20, 1989 Ms. Amanda Hopkins-Alexiadis Psychiatric Institute, Fort Worth 315 Eighth Avenue P.O. Box 69 Fort Worth, TX 76101 Dear Ms. Hopkins-Alexiadis, in response to an inquiry by Ms. Robin Moore for a survey of ECT practice and accompanying training at PIA hospitals in Texas, 1 indicated that training was best provided at the two established courses at Duke University and SUNY at Stony Brook. The SUNY course is a five day, ‘hands-on‘ course which is taught by six members of the faculty. intensive sessions discuss clinical indications, ECT techniques, nursing care, anesthesiOIOgy, medical aspects, instrumentation, theory, and consent. (A description is enclosed.) Such an intensive course cannot be duplicated outside our facility at this short notice. Therefore, we believe it would be preferable to have members of your staff attend the next course, planned for mid-June. But it such attendance is not feasible, we beleve we can create a reasonable facsimile for your staff at Fort Worth. As it is not possible for any of us to teach consistently and continuously for the required minimum two or three days, it would be necessary to include more than one member of our teaching faculty, and I would invite Dr. Lawrence Greenberg, attending psychiatrist and Mrs. irene Carasiti, ECT nurse. Both have worked with me for more than five years in our EC‘l' unit. ' A program would be focussed on practical clinical issues: indications for ECT, selection of cases, consent, medical examinations, demonstration of treatment practice (dosage, electrode placement, frequency), adverse effects and their management, identification of high-risk cases, and malpractice concerns. Such sessions would require a clinician to spend time in the clinical facility to determine the types of cases to be used in the clinical sessions; and to survey the treatment facilities for ECT. A suggested two-day curriculum is attached. The addition of a third day will allow sessions for nurses and anesthesiologists; didactic sessions on ECT theory; discussions of the role of the consultant, management of the high-risk patient, credentialling and privileging, and extended applications as maintenance ECT, treatment of adolescents, and neurologic and medical (mmpsychiatric) applications of ECT. �Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth Page 2 it would be possible to invide Mrs. Carasiti to work with your nurses in parallel on one of the first two days. In discussing the facilities now at the Psychiatric Institute, 1 was told that patients are not now being treated with ECT. We consider a hands-on demonstration so useful, that every effort should be made to take the students to a facility where EC? is actually given; or, to allow us to demonstrate ECT at the institute in suitable cases. design our teaching to encourage our students to teach others at their We provide each student with texts, videotapes, and readings to supplement the textbooks. For the preposed training program, we will supply one (or multiple) set(s) of the texts and videotapes at our discount of $405. A set of the supplementary readings is duplicated at the nominal charge of $10 and either one or multiple sets can be provided. We institutions. We have not developed charges for such an off-site training course but are prepared to use the fee schedule for off-site patient consultation and court appearance as a reasonable basis. We will set a ﬁlly fee of $2,000 for each of the psychiatrists and $1,000 for Mrs. Carasiti. in addition, travel costs at first class rates and local hotel and meal costs will be charged as paid. We can deveIOp this program in the period Sunday-Wednesday, April 23-26. can be reached at my office most mornings at 516-4411 2929. Our FAX number is 516- 4% 7534. I trust these ideas are helpful, and thank you for your inquiry. 1 Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry �1 Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth “w Page PROPOSED COURSE: CLINICAL ASPECTS OF ECT w» Dag (-12: Preparation afternoon/evening er.—mw-w Yewwm—uy. Visit treatment facility; review charts and interview patients in course of ECT, being considered for ECT, or recently completed ECT. Interviews with other patients who may provide bases for discussion. Visit ECT treatment facility; meet with ECT nurse] physician] anesthesiologist. Plan actual course with project coordinator. Day i: am. indications for ECT: didactic; patient interviews; videotapes. (MF) p.m. l? Pre~treatment examinations (LG) Technical issues in treatment; instrumentation; electrode placement (LG) Discussion of risks; risk management; malpractice issues (MP) Consent (LC or 1C) a.m. Treatment demonstrations (MP, LG) w wvn pm. mm— ~.- —.- Nursing and anesthesiology questions (LG) Frequency and number of Rx; indications for termination; concurrent and sequential use of drug therapies (LG) Maintenance ECT (MP) m-w—n- - 4 -—w—- ymvw y. Do! 3: am. Medical issues; high-risk case management; role of consultants (LG) Other indications: Neurologlc; medical (MP) pan. Concurrent sessions: a... Nurses: Role of nurses in ECT (1C) Pre and Post-EC! management Consent procedures Group therapy for patients Anesthesiologists: Medical risks of ECT (LG) Pre-ECT examinations Ultra—brief anesthesia Airway management High risk medical cases; pregnancy Physicians: Theories of ECT (MP) Credentialling and privileging Malpractice issues instrumentation Continuing emanation for professionals Community education WWW. 3 ... v...-4v.w-u».r.-~.-,. ..-, .1 _, .7...“ �Psychiatric Institute of Fort Worth Page a Training Materials BOOKS: Fink, M. CONVULSNE THERAPY: Theory and Practice, Raven Press, 1979. ‘ American Psychiatric Association: Task Force Report #14, Washington, D.C., 1978. Abrams, R. ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY. Oxford University press, 1988. Malitz, S. and Sackeim, H. ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY: Clinical and Basic Research Issues. New York Academy of Sciences, New York 1986. JOURNALS: 'CONVULSWE THERAPY, Raven Press, New York. Quarterly. VIDEOTAPES: . Bluff, INFORMED ECT FOR PATIENTS AND FAMILIES. Somatics Inc., Lake 1986. 11., MIND AND BODY. Health Information Network. Distributed by MECT A Corporation. Portland Oregon, 1987. *' SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS IN EC? The set of books and videotapes may be obtained at our cost of $475 each. The supplementary readings can be duplicated here at about $10 each or we can supply an unbound set for your duplication. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Hopkins-Alexiadis, Amanda Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-149 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/e0591b78b11160f3657efb9a297da426.pdf 78d8f8c196e3561773b4e7fb06782998 PDF Text Text iarch 29, 1989 John M. Ackerman, M.D. 2417 Castillo Street Santa Barbara, California 93105 .v— - " i am acquainted with publications describing electro—acupuncture ECT (EACT) by Dr. Xue and his coworkers in Beijing, and another by Drs. He and Zhuosan (in a separate report from Xian). Both reports appeared in CONVULSIVE THERAPY in 1985. They suggested an equivalence in efficacy between EACT and conventional ECT but greater safety for EACT. in the absence of a random -._w;,.v~——..—.—-— W. V, ., < ”w...”— —w-mw—r—--- -. "nu-v!" Dear Dr. Ackerman, ' assignnient study with independent assessments of outcome and cognition, we remain in the dark as to the importance of these reports. ‘ The second report, "An investigation of Transient Absence of Brain Wave During Convulsion of EACT and ECT" seems to be an abstract. The citation is not given. From the abstract, it is not clear when in the course of the seizure, the TAB W occurred. In 1966, Blachly and Gowing described the end-point of EEGmonitored seizures as 'precise' or 'imprecise‘. Recent studies of the end point find that more than 2/3 of seizures end in a period of iso-electric activity, a flat EEG which may be what is described by Dr. Xue as TABW. The period of isoelectric activity in ECT varies but may be prolonged for more than a few minutes in unusual cases. Usually the duration is under 30 seconds. We are now investigating whether a precise end-point is a favorable prognostic sign (and am imprecise endpoint, an unfavorable one). If i am considering the same phenomenon (TABW = isoelectric activity), then Dr. Xue's observation that 4.1% of cases with EACT had TABW while 31.496 of ECT cases had TABW, would suggest that ECT was the more favorable (effective) treatment. But such speculation needs to be examined with Dr. Xue or another practitioner of EACT. At one time, Dr. Xue correSponded with me and I invited him to visit Stony Brook where l was prepared to let him demonstrate his technique in our unit. He was unable to accept, so i do not have any direct experience with EACT. ww. 'Wumv ‘vw'qm'wwwimmm A ”m— Like other modifications of ECT, the burden of proof of claims of efficacy or safety lies with the protagonist. I do not know how many Cases would be required to define a difference between EACT and ECT, or if there is a difference. i suppose one could estimate the number of cases needed after observing EACT practice in a few model cases. in assessing differences between unilateral and bilateral electrode placements, for example, it required a few hundred cases to demonstrate a difference. �Dr. John Ackerman EACT vs ECT - Page 2 If Dr. Johnson is enthusiastic to try EACT, an open clinical trial in characteristic depressed (and delusional) cases would be of some interest. If he could verify the claims that seizures were induced with remarkably low currents; that needle electrodes were safe and effective; and that the number of treatments needed were either equal or fewer than ECT, it might justify others trying EACT. During Dr. Xue's visit, did he demonstrate EACT? if yes, I would be pleased to talk to an American observer who may have participated in such a demonstration. ' " Thank you for bringing Dr. Xue's arguments to my attention. if there is more that needs discussion, you can call me most mornings at my office (5164M 2929). Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MAD. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Ackerman, John M. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-148 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/3ff6d6e80b0edbb3e480c5370cdc0e7c.pdf d21dc75637addcac7c054a266746f882 PDF Text Text May 25, 1989 Dr. Thomas Bewley Senior Lecturer Department of Addictive Behavior St. George's Hospital Medical School London SW17 England, United Kingdom Dear Tom, What a delightful review! Your review of SPYCATCHER as a study in alcohol consumption said so much that should be said, in an engaging manner, that read and re—read it. I am writing to congratulate you on a fine job. Alcohol abuse is so common in our population that it is a feature of fully half our admissions. Similarly benzodiazepine use is a feature of our middle aged patients. In any case, your review was excellent, and l congratulate you on a fine analysis of modern political leadership. My best regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, MD. Professor of Psychiatry P.S. It was good seeing you in‘ Brighton. When next you come to New York, would you let me know? i would like my associates to meet you. . 1 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Bewley, Thomas Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-6-141 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/820bc03d9d9214ff32a543620724f3b3.pdf cd5d01a44a9dadda2e5744ec39ab6e05 PDF Text Text May 28, 1988 Mr. Jess Buckelew NDMDA P.O. Box 79672! Danes, Texas 75379 Deer Mr. Buckelew, it was a pleaswe meeting you in Montreal. in 1986, lappeared in an educational segment on the McNeil/Lehrer News Hour.mtreportwasqm‘tesuocesstul,andledmetoworkwiththesamevideo team to make two new videotapes for the education of professionals and of patients and thek families. The production of the tapes was supported by Somatics lnc.Youmayhavehadanoportmitytoseeasegmentofonevideotapeattheir at the America Psychiatric Association meetings. The videotape for booth Patients and Their Families may be particularly appropriate for your educational program. I enclose a description of the tapes; they are available from 50th A few years ago, the Carrier Foundation (Belle Meade, New Jersey) had a two day educational senior: on ECT. This was recorded and the audiotapes are available from the Foundation. An audiotape of my presentation "ECT: How it Works: Patient Selection" is 15-04: 16—85. You may also be interested in the recem presentation on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, the NPR radio program of April 16, 1988. They reviewed the present status of electroconvuisive therapy, highlighting the 50th anniversary of the intromction of the treatment. Finally, 1 enclose a few copies of the recent historical section of CONVULSIVE THERAPY for your use. Thank you for your inquiry. Sincerely yours, Max Pitt, M.D. Editor � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Buckelew, Jess Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-5-135 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/afa4add3987c6fe241d1b0ce5c6f20d0.pdf 10bad05727a060d89fe90ce67085bea7 PDF Text Text u—n <"1“"-anr- "v—AVWWn '—' v. «w» .v -W -, ~«r.A~——— ‘ m- vaewr.» w "1." August 15, 1988 ' " l "" " c Mr. Ronald B. Schwartz 4916 Conrad Street Skokie, IL 60077 "" . "—"'"‘ ‘7 Dear Mr. Schwartz, .— ‘7 ‘ A Mr. Buckalew contacted me and my response was to advise him of the variety of videotapes and audio cassette recordings about electroconvulsive therapy in which I have been a participant. I did not make a special tape for the library. I am unable to transfer the copyright to any of these recordings. ‘ WWWMMW- ‘- Good luck in your efforts. Sincerely yours, _— v.1— «mm Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Schwartz, Ronald B. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-5-134 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. Stony Brook University Libraries (State University of New York). Language A language of the resource en-US Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource application/pdf Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Correspondence http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/9ed44ec771dfe14ed38ffa984babda9d.pdf 6d84a5ec90408c0515172fcf3c947b88 PDF Text Text August 18, 1988 Herman M. van Praag, M.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1300 Morris Park Avenue Bronx, New York 10461 Dear Herman, Thank you once again for copies of your annual report. I have watched the of the report, which surely reflects the progress in your Department, from growth few a pages of xeroxed material to these two descriptive volumes. While they reflect much, I am sure that they tell only a fraction of the sweat and anxiety that went into the Department's growth. I looked through the sections for reflections of the use of EC!” and found I recall that one of your associates was interested in developing a useful. this manual of procedures. Now that our science has become so complex and high—tech, the APA has found the same need and has established a new Task Force on ECT which is writing guidelines for treatment and for accreditation of practitioners. The report should be available next May. One interesting aside. My impression is that EC!” is rarely used in the Netherlands. The amount of published new work is small. I was surprised a few months ago by an invitation from Organon to come to Holland for a week in October, to lecture on the topic of EC‘I' at each of seven medical schools. The faculties apparently requested the topic! Even though the assignment is clearly overwhelming and onerous, I gladly accepted gladly the opportunity to meet colleagues and re-establish relationships. I asked to meet with David de Wied. Are there other researchers with an active interest in EC'I' whom I should try to meet? Wrwwww Stony Brook is also growing nicely. Fritz has placed his imprimatur on the Department (most of the appointees made by Stanley Yolleshave left), and we are moving forward as a full fledged neuroscience center. I have taken these months off to write a book on an old love, that of pharmam-electroencephalography. I hope to get it done by early Spring. meet Gregory Asnis from time to time, and read often of his work. I met recently your graduate, John Zach who has become restive in White Plains and is interested in a move. At one time, he spoke to me about setting up an ECT unit; his most recent work has been in eating disorders. I Thank you again for keeping me informed. My regards. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of Psychiatry � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context mfp-05-00-031-5-132 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1988 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a title="Fink, Max, 1923-" href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79039548" target="_blank">Fink, Max, 1923-</a> Subject The topic of the resource Correspondence -- Correspondence Relation A related resource The Max Fink Collection Description An account of the resource Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a title="IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED" href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/" target="_blank">IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries. 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