Person
Adolf Meyer
Swiss-born American psychiatrist who directed the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins from 1913 to 1941 and was the most influential teacher of American psychiatry in the first half of the twentieth century. His psychobiology treated mental disorders as reactions of the whole person to life situations, to be understood through detailed life histories, an approach that shaped Harry Stack Sullivan and the interpersonal school.
Influence
Affinity
- influenced Harry Stack Sullivan
From Meyer's psychobiology Sullivan took the study of the whole person in their life situation; in the 1920s, working near Baltimore, he was in close contact with Meyer's circle at Johns Hopkins.
Gallery
Participants in the Clark University conference, Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1909; Adolf Meyer is in the front row, second from right, near Freud and Jung. Photographer unknown (Wellcome Collection) 
Adolf Meyer in profile, photographed by Camille Ruf, Zurich, 1910 
A life chart by Adolf Meyer, recording a patient's illnesses and life events year by year, from his paper “The Life Chart” in the Osler festschrift Contributions to Medical and Biological Research, 1919
References
- Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan1982Evidence for a relation