1929

Rockefeller Foundation reorganized, with Division of Medical Education becoming Division of Medical Sciences, “reflecting a new policy of extending knowledge through support of scientific research, and eventually [ as of 1933] with a new focus on psychiatry, encouraged by Pearce’s successor Alan Gregg “ (Angel, 47). David Edsall’s (Dean of Harvard Medical school and Rockefeller trustee) 1930 report on the state of psychiatry, which urged the need to make psychiatry more scientific like medicine, helped launch the psychiatry program, which emphasized projects that were physical and laboratory based or at least experimentally based (45-48, 50). In 1935, RF made three-year $100K grant to Franz Alexander in the hope the Chicago Psa Institute would “protect and foster its relationship of medicine and psychiatry,” though by 1937 Gregg and his RF colleagues “became irritable and exasperated with Alexander and Stern, experiencing difficulties in persuading Alexander to steer clear of speculative work and focus on sound experimental work on psychogenic and somatic factors” (Angel, 51, 52; cf. T. Brown, 23-25).