REAL CORRELATION OF BODY AND MIND CITED BY DR. ADLER
Viennese Psychologist Speaks on New Medical Lines at L. I. College
"More and more there is seen a great and important correlation of body and mind," Dr. Alfred Adler, noted Viennese psychologist, said last evening at the opening lecture of a series to be given by him on "Medical Psychology" at the Long Island College of Medicine, 370 Henry St.
Dr. Adler was introduced by Dr. Frank L. Babbott Jr., president of the college, as "visiting professor of medical psychology." This is the first time that such a course has been offered at the institution.
Cites Two Lines of Progress
In introducing Dr. Adler, Dr. Babbott pointed out that there are two lines along which medical education must progress in the future, helping the undergraduate see the community as a whole and seeing the individual in his relation to the mass.
The purpose of this course is to help along the second of these developments by studying personality and its relation to the body in health and disease, Dr. Babbott said.
"From the time of Hippocrates men have tried to determine the connection between mind and body," Dr. Adler stated in discussing the field to be studied in the course. "Certain organic disease we know to have a psychological background."
"There is something more to personality than heredity, environment and the experiences of the body. There is a reaching out after some finite goal," Prof. Adler said. "To determine part of this movement toward a goal is to learn the nature of the whole."
The course is open to all students in the College of Medicine and is required of third-year students.
Fuente: "Real Correlation Of Body and Mind Cited by Dr. Adler. Viennese Psychologist Speaks on New Medical Lines at L. I. College", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, N. Y., Friday, 7 October 1932, p. 7, col. 3, continued at the head of col. 4; unsigned. Transcribed from the page image at fultonhistory.com (Brooklyn NY Daily Eagle 1932 a Grayscale, file 1772); the OCR of the page was used only for orientation and corrected against the image ("finite goal", not "future goal"). Neighbouring items on the page omitted.