Background
Ruesch, Jurgen was born on November 9, 1909 in Naples, Italy. Came to United States, 1939, naturalized, 1945. Son of Oscar and Vera (Meissner) Ruesch.
Ruesch, Jurgen was born on November 9, 1909 in Naples, Italy. Came to United States, 1939, naturalized, 1945. Son of Oscar and Vera (Meissner) Ruesch.
Doctor of Medicine, University Zurich, Switzerland, 1935.
Fellow Rockefeller Foundation. Assistant psychiatry Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1939-1941. Research fellow neuropathology Harvard Medical School, 1941-1943.
Member faculty University California School Medicine, San Francisco, 1943-1977, professor psychiatry, 1956-1977, professor emeritus, from 1977. Research psychiatrist Langley Porter Neuropsychiat. Institute, San Francisco, 1943-1958, director treatment research center, 1958-1964, director section social psychiatry, 1965-1977.
Consultant various federal, state, community, private agencies.
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Fellow American College Psychiatrists, American Psychiatric Association (Hofheimer award 1951). Member International Federation Medical Psychotherapy (director 1964-1977), American Medical Association, San Francisco County Medical Society, Northern California Psychiatric Society, Association Research in Nervous and Mental Disease (past vice president), American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association Social Psychiatry, German Society Psychiatry and Neurology (honorary).
Married Annemarie Jacobson, December 11, 1937. 1 son, Jeffrey.