Isador Henry Coriat was an American psychiatrist and neurologist. He was one of the first American psychoanalysts .
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He was born in Philadelphia in 1875 as the son of Hyram Coriat and Clara née Einstein. He was of Moroccan-Spanish descent on father's side and German on mother's side. He grew up in Boston

Boston

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 and attended Tufts Medical School

Tufts University School of Medicine

The Tufts University School of Medicine is one of the eight schools that constitute Tufts University. Located on the university's health sciences campus in the Chinatown district of Boston, Massachusetts, the medical school has clinical affiliations with thousands of doctors and researchers in the...

, graduating in 1900.

He was one of the founders of Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the first secretary in 1914 and president in years 1930-32. Coriat was the only Freudian analyst in Boston during the period after Putnam's death.

Coriat worked with the Rev. Elwood Worcester, served as the medical expert for the Emmanuel Movement

Emmanuel Movement

The Emmanuel Movement was a psychologically-based approach to religious healing introduced in 1906 as an outreach of the Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts. In practice, the religious element was de-emphasized and the primary modalities were individual and group therapy...

and co-authored Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders.

Coriat married Etta Dann in 1910. He died on May 26, 1943 after a brief illness.

Selected works

• Abnormal Psychology. New York, Moffat, Yard, 1910
• The Hysteria of Lady Macbeth. New York, Moffat, Yard and company, 1912
• The Meaning of Dreams. Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1915
• Repressed Emotions. New York, Brentano's 1920
• Religion and Medicine; The Moral Control of Nervous Disorders. By Elwood Worcester, Samual McComb [and] Isador M. Coriat. New York, Moffat, Yard & company, 1908
• Stammering, a Psychoanalytic Interpretation. N.Y. : 1928
• What is Psychoanalysis? New York : Moffat, Yard & Co., 1917
• Sex and Hunger. Psychoanal Rev 8, 375-381 (1921) link
• The Sadism in Oscar Wilde's “Salome”. Psychoanal Rev 1, 257-259 (1914) link
• Humor and hypomania. Psychiatric Quarterly 13, 4, s. 681-688 (1939) 10.1007/BF01571533