1938

Conference on “Experimental Neuroses and Allied Problems,” attended by two representatives of Macy Foundation  Macy Foundation backing of new journal on psychosomatic medicine, with Flanders Dunbar as managing editor; Stanley Cobb agreed to integrate his Harvard University Press monograph series into the journal  publication of first issue of Psychosomatic Medicine on Jan 1, 1939. Franz Alexander, first name on editorial board, put issue #1 together with Dunbar (Levenson, 34ff.). “The influence of Alexander on the first issue of Psychosomatic Medicine was overwhelming. The bulk of the material originated in Chicago, written by Alexander, his colleagues at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, or friends at other institutions in the city” (39).