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The Meaning Of Dreams; Mind And Health Series
Isador Henry Coriat
Little, Brown and company, 1915
Dreams
Religion and Medicine: The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders
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Isador Henry Coriat was an American neurologist and psychoanalyst.
Background
Isador Henry Coriat was born on December 10, 1875 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Harry and Clara (Einstein) Coriat. His father, born Hyram Curiat, was a Jewish immigrant from Morocco; his mother was a native Philadelphian. The family moved about 1879 to Boston, where the elder Coriat started out as peddler and eventually became a cigar manufacturer.
Education
Isador attended Boston public schools. He received his M. D. degree from Tufts Medical College in 1900.
Career
He worked for five years as assistant physician at the Worcester (Massachussets) State Hospital, where psychiatry was being transformed by Adolf Meyer. Thereafter Coriat lived in Boston, working at first as a neurologist. He served in that capacity on the staff of the City Hospital until 1919 and at Mount Sinai Hospital until 1914, meanwhile engaging in private practice. As a student Coriat had been co-author of A Laboratory Manual of Physiological and Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology (1898), and at Worcester he had investigated the chemistry and physiology of the nervous system.
He soon became interested in the role of the mind in causing and curing functional nervous disorders. In Boston, then the center of interest in psychopathology and psychotherapy, he was particularly influenced by the distinguished neurologist Morton Prince, with whom he worked at Boston City Hospital. Prince, an adherent of the French psychopathologist Pierre Janet, was the leading American student of the "subconscious"; he investigated multiple personalities and other dissociated mental states, as well as hypnosis.
Coriat joined other physicians and psychologists, including William James, who met at Prince's home to discuss these phenomena.
He also became medical consultant to the Emmanuel Movement, a program of religious healing within the Episcopal Church that was sharply criticized by many physicians; with Elwood Worcester and Samuel McComb, the movement's ministers, he wrote Religion and Medicine (1908).
Between 1906 and 1908 Coriat became acquainted with the work of Sigmund Freud through the writings of A. A. Brill and James Jackson Putnam, a Boston neurologist and the most prominent American convert to psychoanalyis. He later recalled that he initially considered Freud's theories on infantile sexuality and free association in dream analysis "nonsensical. " Although he was impressed by Freud's lectures at Clark University in 1909, he still at that time viewed psychoanalysis as one of several valid therapies. Yet he was convinced that every mental symptom had a cause, and found psychoanalysis increasingly useful in connecting hysterical symptoms to repressed childhood experiences, often of a sexual nature.
In 1913 Coriat publicly disagreed with Janet and announced his belief in the "complete validity" of psychoanalytic theory; the next year he joined the psychoanalytic study group which met at Putnam's home. After Putnam's death in 1918, Coriat was one of the few analysts in Boston, and the only one considered orthodox. Even then, however, he seemed broadly inclusive; he allowed his popular book Abnormal Psychology to be reprinted without a thoroughgoing psychoanalytic revision, and as late as 1920 he referred to Alfred Adler as "one of the greatest thinkers of the Freudian school. "
During the 1920's he held informal seminars with younger analysts, most of whom had been trained in Europe.
Coriat was a prolific if not highly original writer. He had broad interests, and published numerous articles on anthropology, literature, history, and myth, as well as on purely clinical topics. Several of his books were intended for popular audiences: Abnormal Psychology (1910), The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth (1912), The Meaning of Dreams (1915), What Is Psychoanalysis? (1917), and Repressed Emotions (1920). Except for the first, these were written from a psychoanalytic viewpoint in an effort to popularize the new medical field.
His most original and influential work was Stammering: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation, published in 1928 after more than a decade of research. He viewed stammering as an "oral neurosis" in which the sufferer protected himself against betrayal of his infantile sadistic tendencies. Coriat worked easily with others and was considered by his colleagues a genial and sincere friend. He remained a tenacious advocate of psychoanalysis, subordinating personal predilections to the interests of the movement.
Coriat died in Boston of a coronary thrombosis in 1943; his remains were cremated at Forest Hills Crematory, Boston.
Like other early American analysts, Coriat tried to make psychoanalysis palatable to the public by deemphasizing sexuality and explaining that "'sexual' has the same broad meaning as the word 'love. '" He believed psychoanalysis could help individuals sublimate infantile tendencies into useful intellectual and artistic pursuits, and especially praised the healing properties of religion.
Connections
His happy marriage, on February 1, 1904, to Etta Dann, daughter of a Boston rabbi, ended with her death thirty years later. There were no children.