Background
Albert Moore Barrett was born on July 15, 1871, in Austin, Illinois, the oldest of four children and only son of the Rev. Edward Newton Barrett, a Presbyterian minister, and Anna Sarah (Moore) Barrett.
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Albert Moore Barrett was born on July 15, 1871, in Austin, Illinois, the oldest of four children and only son of the Rev. Edward Newton Barrett, a Presbyterian minister, and Anna Sarah (Moore) Barrett.
His family having moved to Iowa City, Iowa, he was educated there, receiving a B. A. from the State University of Iowa in 1893 and an M. D. in 1895.
Immediately after graduation from medical school Barrett became interested in psychiatry. His first position was as pathologist at the State Hospital for the Insane at Independence, Iowa, where he served from 1895 to 1897 and again from 1898 to 1901. During the intervening year he was assistant physician at the Worcester (Massachussets) Hospital for the Insane. After a year's study at Heidelberg University in Germany (1901 - 02) under Franz Nissl and Alois Alzheimer, he returned to Massachusetts as pathologist of the State Hospital for the Insane at Danvers. In 1905-06 he was an assistant in neuropathology at Harvard University. In 1906, when the new psychopathic hospital associated with the University of Michigan was completed, Barrett became its first director, a position he retained until his death. Starting in 1907 he served also as professor of psychiatry and nervous diseases in the university and after 1920 as chairman of the department of psychiatry. Although he was trained in the organic approach to psychiatric and neurological medicine, Barrett promptly accepted and strongly supported the psychodynamic approach to problems of mental health.
He maintained an interest in neuropathology, however, continuing to teach it until 1930, and most of his papers are organically oriented. He was an authority on the relationship of both cerebral arteriosclerosis and pernicious anemia to mental disease and made significant early contributions on both topics. As an administrator Barrett was also influential. The Michigan State Psychopathic Hospital - the first in this country to be established in association with a university - served as a model for a number of similar hospitals elsewere, notably the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital.
During the last few years of his life his health was impaired, but this was known to relatively few of even his intimate friends, and he continued to work vigorously. He died in Ann Arbor of a coronary occlusion in his sixty-fifth year and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery there.
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Barrett was a member of many medical societies and was president of a number of them, including the American Psychiatric Association (1921 - 22), the American Psychopatho-logical Association (1925), and the American Neurological Association (1935 - 36).
A sage observer, optimistic and well balanced, Barrett was thoroughly interested both in his teaching and in his administrative work. His culture, kindly geniality, spontaneity, infectious enthusiasm, and whimsical humor made a deep imprint upon students, co-workers, and friends.
On July 8, 1905, he had married Eliza Jane Bowman of Lyons, Iowa. Their only child, Edward Bowman, survived him.