John Millet MD Papers, 1928/1976

Summary

Creator:
Millet, John A. P. (John Alfred Parsons), 1888-1976
Abstract:
This collection contains the papers of John Millet, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who researched allergic disturbances, peripheral vascular disorders, and psychosomatic medicine. The collection has no series and needs to be reprocessed.
Extent:
4 boxes 1.88 linear feet
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains the papers of John Millet, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who researched allergic disturbances, peripheral vascular disorders, and psychosomatic medicine. The collection has no series and needs to be reprocessed.

Biographical / historical:

John Alfred Parsons Millet (1888-1976) was born to American parents in Broadway, Worcestershire, England and educated there until he came to the United States to attend Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, where he received his degrees in 1910 and 1914, respectively. After a medical internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston in 1916, he trained in psychotherapy at the Austen Riggs Center in 1930 and in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1935.

In 1934, he and William B. Terhune established the Silver Hill Foundation for the treatment of psychoneuroses. With the help of Dr. Daniel Blain, Dr. Millet developed Tratelja Farms, Inc. in 1938 for the treatment of maladjustments, less serious emotional illnesses, and psychosomatic disorders. In 1939, he organized the Lake George Foundation with its treatment center at Diamond Point, New York and its all-purpose mental hygiene clinic in Glen Falls, New York. In 1946, he organized a neuropsychiatric consultation service for the American Rehabilitation Committee, Inc., later serving as chief of the panel of psychiatric consultants and president of the committee in 1972. Dr. Millet assisted in organizing the Third International Congress of Mental Health in London in 1946. He also assisted in the founding of the Rockland County Mental Health Association and the 1954 establishment of the county-sponsored center for mental health.

Dr. Millet was active in the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and was elected its fourth president in 1959-1960. In addition, he received the Academy's Distinguished Service Award in 1972. He aided in the establishment and administration of the New York School of Psychiatry, where he began as Associate Professor of Psychiatry and retried as Professor Emeritus after serving as Dean for five years from 1959 to 1964. He had many other involvements in academic psychiatry, including appointments of varying lengths from 1916 to the early 1970s at the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research, Cornell University Medical College, and Tulane University Medical School. In addition, he was affiliated with many branches of the New York State Society for Mental Health, the United Nations Consultative Committee on Mental Hygiene, and the United States Committee of the World Federation for Mental Health. Along with being a member of many societies of medicine, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis and a founding fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysis, he published extensively, as documented by the collection. Dr. Millet died in Nyack, New York, where he was in private practice, in 1976 at the age of eighty seven.

Acquisition information:
Unknown.

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Written permission must be obtained from the Oskar Diethelm Library and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Location of this collection:
DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy and the Arts
Weill Cornell Medical College
525 East 68th Street, Box 140
New York, NY 10065, United States
Link to repository site
Contact:
212-746-3728