An Interview with Max Fink, MD: World-Leading Expert on Electroconvulsive Therapy
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Title
An Interview with Max Fink, MD: World-Leading Expert on Electroconvulsive Therapy
Subject
Neuropsychiatry (MeSH)
Suicide (MeSH)
Electroconvulsive Therapy (MeSH)
Psychoanalysis (MeSH)
Catatonia (MeSH)
Description
Max Fink, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology Emeritus, Stony Brook University, was interviewed by Lorraine Botti on March 18, 2018. The location was Special Collections in the Melville Library at Stony Brook University, where his archive is housed. In the interview, Dr. Fink discusses: the circumstances which brought him to Stony Brook University in 1972 including his appointment by Dr. Stanley Yolles; his administration of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) services; the Second World War and Sigmund Freud; psychoanalysis vs. ECT then and now, and its effect on suicide; and catatonia verification and treatment.
Creator
Source
Stony Brook Medicine's YouTube Channel published this video in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dxp3N12uAY
Publisher
Stony Brook Medicine
Date
2018-03
Contributor
Interviewer: Lorraine Botti
Rights
Stony Brook University owns the rights to this video.
Max Fink, MD owns the Intellectual Property Rights.
Format
video/mp4
Language
en-US
Type
MovingImage
Identifier
mfp_MaxFink_videos_20190301
Files
Collection
Citation
Fink, Max, 1923-, “An Interview with Max Fink, MD: World-Leading Expert on Electroconvulsive Therapy,” Max Fink Digital Collection, accessed March 22, 2025, https://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/items/show/6793.