John Patrick Spiegel

American physician

John Patrick Spiegel
Born	March 17, 1911
Died	July 17, 1991
Nationality	American
Parent(s)	Lena Straus Spiegel Modie Spiegel
Family	Polly Spiegel Cowan (sister) Joseph Spiegel (grandfather) Alix Spiegel (granddaughter)

John Paul Spiegel (March 17, 1911 – July 17, 1991) was an American psychiatrist, and expert on violence and combat stress and the 103rd President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA).^[1]^[2] As president-elect of the APA in 1973, and a closeted homosexual at the time, he helped to change the definition of homosexuality in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) which had previously described homosexuality as sexual deviance and that homosexuals were pathological.^[3]^[4]

Biography

Spiegel was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1934. He received his medical degree in 1938 from Northwestern University School of Medicine. He later taught at the University of Chicago and Harvard University, and practiced medicine at Michael Reese Hospital.

During World War II, he served as a medical officer in the Army Air Corps. He joined the faculty of Brandeis University, where he headed the Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence from 1966 to 1979.

Personal life

Spiegel was married to Babette Shiller (d.1975); they had four children: Adam Spiegel, Heli Spiegel Meltsner, Mamie Spiegel, and Polly Spiegel.^[1] Spiegel's granddaughter is National Public Radio correspondent Alix Spiegel.^[5] After the death of his wife, he came out as gay.^[6] He died on July 17, 1991, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Publications

1945. War Neuroses. with Roy R. Grinker Sr., Philadelphia, 1945.

References

^ ^a ^b Joan Riddell Cook (July 19, 1991). "John P. Spiegel, 80, Expert on Violence And Combat Stress". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-07-20. John P. Spiegel, an expert on combat fatigue and urban violence, died on Wednesday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 80 years old.
^ Heise, Kenan (July 19, 1991). "Dr. John P. Spiegel, 80". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2010-07-20. Dr. John P. Spiegel, 80, a retired Brandeis University faculty member and a nationally renowned social psychiatrist, conducted pioneer research on violence as part of war, the inner city and the family.
^ "204: 81 Words". This American Life. 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2023-06-02.
^ The story of the revision was revealed in a 2002 episode of the NPR radio series This American Life titled "81 Words".
^ "Alix Spiegel : NPR".
^ "204: 81 Words". This American Life. 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2023-06-02.

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Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association

1844–1900

Samuel Bayard Woodward (1844–1848)
William Maclay Awl (1848–1851)
Luther Vose Bell (1851–1855)
Isaac Ray (1855–1859)
Andrew McFarland (1859–1862)
Thomas Story Kirkbride (1862–1870)
John S. Butler (1870–1873)
Charles Nichols (1873–1879)
Clement Walker (1879–1882)
J. H. Callender (1882–1883)
John P. Gray (1883–1884)
Pliny Earle (1884–1885)
Orpheus Everts (1885–1886)
H. A. Buttolph (1886–1887)
Eugene Grissom (1887–1888)
John B. Chapin (1888–1889)
W. W. Godding (1889–1890)
H. P. Stearns (1890–1891)
Daniel Clark (1891–1892)
J. B. Andrews (1892–1893)
John Curwen (1893–1894)
Edward Cowles (1894–1895)
Richard Dewey (1895–1896)
Theophilus O. Powell (1896–1897)
Richard Maurice Bucke (1897–1898)
Henry Mills Hurd (1898–1899)
Joseph G. Rogers (1899–1900)

1900–1925

Peter M. Wise (1900–1901)
Robert J. Preston (1901–1902)
A. B. Richardson/G. Adler Bloomer (1902–1903)
A. E. Macdonald (1903–1904)
T. J. W. Burgess (1904–1905)
C. B. Burr (1905–1906)
Charles G. Hill (1906–1907)
Charles P. Bancroft (1907–1908)
Arthur F. Kilbourne (1908–1909)
William F. Drewry (1909–1910)
Charles W. Pilgrim (1910–1911)
Hubert Work (1911–1912)
James T. Searcy (1912–1913)
Carlos Frederick MacDonald (1913–1914)
Samuel E. Smith (1914–1915)
Edward Nathaniel Brush (1915–1916)
Charles G. Wagner (1916–1917)
James V. Anglin (1917–1918)
Elmer Ernest Southard (1918–1919)
Henry C. Eyman (1919–1920)
Owen Copp (1920–1921)
Albert Moore Barrett (1921–1922)
Henry W. Mitchell (1922–1923)
Thomas William Salmon (1923–1924)
William Alanson White (1924–1925)

1925–1950

C. Floyd Haviland (1925–1926)
George M. Kline (1926–1927)
Adolf Meyer (1927–1928)
Samuel Orton (1928–1929)
Earl D. Bond (1929–1930)
Walter M. English (1930–1931)
William L. Russell (1931–1932)
James Vance May (1932–1933)
George H. Kirby (1933–1934)
C. Fred Williams (1934–1935)
Clarence O. Cheney (1935–1936)
Charles Macfie Campbell (1936–1937)
Ross McClure Chapman (1937–1938)
Richard H. Hutchings (1938–1939)
William C. Sandy (1939–1940)
George H. Stevenson (1940–1941)
H. Douglas Singer/James King Hall (1941–1942)
Arthur H. Ruggles (1942–1943)
Edward Adam Strecker (1943–1944)
Karl M. Bowman (1944–1946)
Samuel W. Hamilton (1946–1947)
Winfred Overholser Sr. (1947–1948)
William Claire Menninger (1948–1949)
George S. Stevenson (1949–1950)

1950–1975

John C. Whitehorn (1950–1951)
Leo H. Bartemeier (1951–1952)
Donald Ewen Cameron (1952–1953)
Kenneth E. Appel (1953–1954)
Arthur Percy Noyes (1954–1955)
R. Finley Gayle Jr. (1955–1956)
Francis J. Braceland (1956–1957)
Harry C. Solomon (1957–1958)
Francis J. Gerty (1958–1959)
William Malamud (1959–1960)
Robert H. Felix (1960–1961)
Walter E. Barton (1961–1962)
C. H. Hardin Branch (1962–1963)
Jack R. Ewalt (1963–1964)
Daniel Blain (1964–1965)
Howard P. Rome (1965–1966)
Harvey John Tompkins (1966–1967)
Henry W. Brosin (1967–1968)
Lawrence Kolb (1968–1969)
Raymond W. Waggoner (1969–1970)
Robert S. Garber (1970–1971)
Ewald W. Busse (1971–1972)
Perry Clement Talkingten (1972–1973)
Alfred Freedman (1973–1974)
John Patrick Spiegel (1974–1975)

1975–2000

Judd Marmor (1975–1976)
Robert W. Gibson (1976–1977)
Jack Weinberg (1977–1978)
Jules H. Masserman (1978–1979)
Alan A. Stone (1979–1980)
Donald G. Langsley (1980–1981)
Daniel X. Freedman (1981–1982)
H. Keith H. Brodie (1982–1983)
George Tarjan (1983–1984)
John A. Talbott (1984–1985)
Carol Nadelson (1985–1986)
Robert O. Pasnau (1986–1987)
George H. Pollock (1987–1988)
Paul J. Fink (1988–1989)
Herb Pardes (1989–1990)
Elissa P. Benedek (1990–1991)
Lawrence Hartmann (1991–1992)
Joseph T. English (1992–1993)
John S. McIntyre (1993–1994)
Jerry M. Wiener (1994–1995)
Mary Jane England (1995–1996)
Harold Eist (1996–1997)
Herbert S. Sacks (1997–1998)
Rodrigo A. Muñoz (1998–1999)
Allan Tasman (1999–2000)

2000–

Daniel B. Borenstein (2000–2001)
Richard K. Harding (2001–2002)
Paul S. Appelbaum (2002–2003)
Marcia Kraft Goin (2003–2004)
Michelle Riba (2004–2005)
Steven Sharfstein (2005–2006)
Pedro Ruiz (2006–2007)
Carolyn Robinowitz (2007–2008)
Nada Stotland (2008–2009)
Alan F. Schatzberg (2009–2010)
Carol A. Bernstein (2010–2011)
John Oldham (2011–2012)
Dilip V. Jeste (2012–2013)
Jeffrey Lieberman (2013–2014)
Paul Summergrad (2014–2015)
Renée Binder (2015–2016)
Maria A. Oquendo (2016–2017)
Anita Everett (2017–2018)
Altha Stewart (2018–2019)
Bruce J. Schwartz (2019–2020)
Jeffery Geller (2020–2021)
Vivian Pender (2021–2022)
Rebecca W. Brendel (2022–2023)

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