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                  <text>February 10, 1965

Arthur Sugarman, M.D.
Chief, Investigative Ptychlatry Section
A.

New

Jersay Heuro~Paych13tr1c Inatttnua

Box 1000

Princeton,

New

Jersey

Dear Arthur:

is a letter tram my secretary regarding your exponccs
to vial: St. Louis. Sinca this is being paid from the Resident
Training funds, yuur statement ingluaeo a $50 honorarium.
Enclosed

With tagard to noun old bﬁiintlt, I cook the ranpounihility of
submitting your regort on EEG ana.Bahavarlal Ghangcs to Dunn
Clyde and his staff. Dr. Crane: was kind enough to critique
tha statistics, and I am enclosing a not. for your uso. I: 13
my inpxnaston that thuy would be racpoutive to additional £n~

quitlan frou

you

if

you wish.

I am embarrataed regarding Turan’s dissertation. Apparently
the cupy which I gave you 13 the o££1c1:1 unlvcrulty diaacrta~
clan. For purposes of clarity and in ordar to add additional
data which the university felt abauld not be includeé. and which
cgmo after his thesis had bocn accapcea. ho but asked his publltha:
to issue a second odltion including chm additional data and an
English summary. To avoid umbarraasmenc. I have not told him
that I gave you a copy - as you know, ha-would ha upuet. I wanld
be grateful if you wauld eaturn the copy after you hays rand 1e,
and I will use to it that you as: the more canploto adiulon It
soon as

it

is availablc.

'

‘

.

to the growth of this staff, I am pleased to have you
considcr joining us. There are two pacltions open ac_the luatltute
at the present tint for which-99a quslify.

With regard

I an interested in catabllshlns another clinical ruccntch unit,

eudovud

25 or 59 beds in the Institute and
bad: in the State Hospital a: as any wiab.

initially with either

supported

by go many

�Dr. A. A. Sugcrman
Zulo-éé
?cgc Two

This unit ahould he devoted to the kind of program. which you
have so ably dcvclopod. including curly clinical drug evaluation.
touting of specific hypothesis of drug action, and for aomc cor-

related laboratory studies.
In

ECDEU,

tion,

some

I

would

spacial

to soc new coopoondo tested in out populalit:
cmphccis pcthcpa on adolcacontc and the agcﬁ.

cantor is a fertile ground for ﬁnch studios, but require:
leadership which I think you can give it. copeciclly if supported
by the ohcctvctiona of tuna patients in our own words. Once such
studies are undertaken. the laboratory studies, especially EEG.
will bccomc a concurrent part.
Tho youth

second position is a senior one, with the additional tccponcibility of the Resident Psychiatric Training Program (requires
pcthapc 1/3 time) and the opportunity for a clinical unit of the
Institute. At the present time the Psychicttic Training 9togtcm
is supervised by Dr. Ulett and myself. Ha otc anxious to have
nomcbody who is principally recoatoh otiontod to expand and develop
this program. It is our goal to have on many of our residents as

A

possible outer research at

community

servico cateots.

In either position, I would consider your appointment as equal to
that of Dr. Gerohoc, Dr. Itil, or myself.
.

this will permit the division of 150 beds into four
it,
the
for
units
present. It may be possible in the next bicnnium
another
senior investigator with clinical responsibility.
to appoint
In that eventuality. we will begin to take responsibility for some
of the facilities of the hospital, using our beds for those observations which must ho made in the units. At the present time, for
example. Sam and Sol have 1A patients in the aeuctnl Hospital - thcy
are a control group for a number in the Institute for ono of their
studico.

As

I see

and Huntington Uhivotaity is
review
the
undotgoiug
at
present time; however, the appointments of
and Gctahon have boon approved by the appropriate faculty
Dru.
committcoc, and I cxpcct than to ho concocted at tho and of this month.
I would be plcacod to rccoanond your appointmcnt and can covilion no
problem in that acorc.

The

rolationchip bctvccn the Institute

ltil

Solution at the Missouri Institotc of Psychiatry are based on o 48
hour wank, cincc they are on a full tinc basic. Senior noicntiots
ate appointcd concurrently to the Institute and to the Psychiatric
Rococtch Foundction of ”inconti. tho latter hot and. pocniblc a
anchor of pccroquioits, including a totircucnt honciit through
TIAA at a rat: or approximately 10! of colary. Tho Micoouti
Instincmc of Psychiatry cclaty range is $18,000 to $21.000-pct
annum for the position. we cto discussing, to which the Revocation'a
101

is

«Good.

It

in our hope that the Foundation's contribution

�Dr. A. A. Sugormuu
2—10—6b

Page Thtoo

will roach 202 within thin biennium. In addition to a boon
salary plus a Foundation commitment which inolodoo rotiteoooz
bouofito, chore uro allowance: from tho Institute for eravol
and nomberohip fees. which make it unnaooloory for no to havo

many

profeooionol orpenooo.

With regard to your quootion about u hiatus - I do not think
that this would occur for you for as long a period on it hos
for no. Ploolo realise tho: whom I can. horo to had on oupty
shell and
is only in the past few months that l have boon
able to undertake some studies of my own.

it

populatibnt here are similar to your own. and tho facilities
are already eotablithod to that you oould work with tho ovoiloblo

The

equipment

until your

own

The growth of research
The present advontagos

wore

establiohod.

inatituteo is

a phenomena in.Amorica.
one has over onothor is largely the
support given by the goront body. Twonty—fivo yoars ago when
KY?! was organized, it was given sufficient iopotus to become the
outstanding reoearch center of that period. sad it ho. called on
that reputation ever since. Other conters Ilka Err}. IPPI, and
those of Hebraoka. Oklnhoma, and Indiana hovo not shown the
growth originally envisioned for them becauso they veto never

givon the

I

that

initial ouoport.
know if this Institute will

do not
ho liko HY?! or EPQI, but
have roceived magnificont support from the State and the
community. The additionol support from the Rational Institutes
of ﬁenlth has been astonishing, and with the addiciOn of a few
meta research psychiatrists. I believe we will have one of the
we

finest clinical psychiatric resoareh centers in tho notion in a

very short while.

additional advantage of location in o largo.cit§,
direct affiliation with a university with excellent groéuate and
undergraduate programs, with national and international reputationn,
the backing on our own grounds of a 2,800 had State Hospital, tad

go have the

a new

It

facility

was a

easily.
to vioit no.

which cannot be matched

great plan-ore for

you

Sincerely,
Fink. 3.9.
Director

Max

33/51:
833 o

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