Roy R. Grinker, Sr. was an influential psychiatrist who founded the Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Institute and studied stress in war environments.
Dr. Roy Richard Grinker, Sr. (August 2, 1900 - May 9, 1993) was born in Chicago and obtained his M.D. from Rush Medical College in 1921. In 1927 he started teaching at the University of Chicago and from 1933 to 1935 he studied under Sigmund Freud. While serving at World War II he co-authored Men Under Stress (1945) with John P. Spiegel; from 1951 to 1969 he taught at Northwestern and University of Illinois, and in 1969 became professor of psychiatry at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. He is the author of 28 books and more than three hundred scientific articles.
Roy R. Grinker appears in the following:
Freud Centenary Afternoon Session
Friday, April 20, 1956
Wartime Lessons for Peacetime Psychiatry
Sunday, September 29, 1946
Henry Brosin of the University of Chicago Department of Psychology moderates this discussion of the psychological effects of war with guests Roy R. Grinker, director of psychiatry at the Michael Riis Hospital, and William C. Menninger of the Menninger of the Menninger Sanitarium, former director of the Department of Neuropsychiatry ...
