Memo from Frankwood Williams to Adolf Meyer

Memo from Frankwood Williams to Adolf Meyer

Letter to Adolf Meyer from Frankwood E. Williams

At the time, Adolf Meyer was an influential figure in the National Committee for Mental Hygiene. It was an organization dedicated to the reform of psychiatry, the promotion of mental health research, the creation of outpatient services and expansion of the discipline into fields like public health. When the US entered the war, the NCMH took a keen interest in the urgent problem of war neuroses. Under the leadership of the psychiatrist Thomas Salmon, who became a consultant for the AEF, the organization began converting its members and their institutions into a psychiatric service for the US Army’s medical corps. The above letter, written by the vice-chairman of the newly created “War Work Committee,” reveals this institutional shift. Adolf Meyer and his clinic became a part of this.

Williams, Frankwood

August 15, 1917

1 letter ; 11 x 8.5 in.

Item 238634