1938

Israel Wechsler appointed Director of Neurology at Mt. Sinai; in 1939, Lawrence Kubie appointed head of the Psychiatry Division in the Neurology Service; Kubie expands service with refugee analysts to staff his psychosomatic program. Tension developed in 1942 over Kubie’s request to expand the psychiatry division (already at almost 40) with more refugee analysts at the same time as the Neurology Service was depleted by the war, leaving a staff of only five. In Jan, 1943, Kubie and most of his staff resigned. In 1946, the Dept. of Psychiatry was launched as an independent service under M. Ralph Kaufman (Stein, 296-303)