Language

English

Word Count

1,250,000 words, Guess

Page Count

5,000 pages

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Description

Correspondence, speeches, writings, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers relating to Overholser's career in psychiatry and his research in forensic psychiatry. Documents his work as commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Diseases, director of the department's Division for the Examination of Prisoners, and superintendent of Saint Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Harold H. Burton, C.G. Jung, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Karl A. Menninger, Richard M. Nixon, Ezra Pound, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Santayana, and Gregory Zilboorg.

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Topics

PrisonersPsychiatryMental healthCorrespondenceForensic psychiatryPsychiatric hospitalsMental health services

People

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)C. G. Jung (1875-1961)Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)Harold H. Burton (1888-1964)George Santayana (1863-1952)Gregory Zilboorg (1890-1959)Karl A. Menninger (1893-1990)

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