IRA S. WILE: 1877-1943
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583 At the time and and1924-1925he collaborated in a book: âReMedicine: The Moral Control of the Nervous Systemâ (I9o8). His interest in psychoanalysis, already aroused, became permanently fixed by the visit of Freud to Clark University in From that time on he carried on an analytic practice and wrote a number of books to popularize the new doctrines. In this way he established a national reputation as one of the pioneer analysts of this country. The stigma attached to that period to psychoanalysis prevented for a number of years his becoming a member of the more conventional societies. Inwas Educa-librarian Committeeof thepresident,an instructor in the Institute. He was and 1936-1937,of the American Psychoanalytic Association, member and vice-president, 1931-1932, of the American Psychopathological Association, vice-president of analytic Association, the International 1936-1937, Psychomember ofhe beganfounding andof the after its presidentBoston organuntilPsychoanalytic ization inSociety becameThe American Psychiatric Association, of the New England Society of Psychiatry, and of the Boston Society of Neurology and Psychiatry. An erudite, kindly and sincere friend he will be greatly missed.B. Wxiua.1877-1943educator OctoberIra 9,S.Wile,psychiatrist,died in Newsociologist,York Citya brief illness. He was managed to fit severalBorn in Roches-lic Health Association, Hygiene Association, for Social Research, cians and Surgeons,Colleges.the