Philip Sigurd Graven (1892 - 1977) was a medical doctor and pioneering psychoanalyst.
On 14 May 1892, Graven was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to Martin Pederson Graven and Petra Jacobson.[1] [2] When he was four years old, the local paper reported that he had broken his leg falling on a sidewalk, and that he suffered from "an affection of the spine".[3]
In 1914, Graven was student at the University of Chicago.[4]
In 1919, Graven was mentioned in a German-language paper in St. Louis.[5] In 1920, after serving as an intern in a St. Louis Hospital, Graven enrolled in a post-graduate course of study at Yale.[6]
In 1921, Graven was a member of American Medical Association of Vienna.[7] Graven married Rose Velda "R'Velda" Shauta, an Austrian woman.
In 1924, Graven published a paper on headaches. That same year, Graven authored a paper "The Analytic Treatment of Epilepsy" which was published in the German Journal Fortschritte der Sexualwissenschaft und Psychoanalyse (Advances in Sexology and Psychoanalysis).[8] While at St. Elizabeths, Graven specialized in the psychoanalytic treatment of epilepsy.
In 1924, Graven was a charter member of the Washington DC Psychoanalytic Association, where he presented a paper titled "An Analysis of a Case of Vampirism".[9] In October 1924, Graven was profiled in a Milwaukee paper after national reporting on his career.[1] Graven used his home to host a series of lecture by Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi.[10] [11] Graven trained Navy medical doctor Joseph Cheesman Thompson in Psychoanalysis.[12]
In 1925, Graven and his wife made a trip from the United States back to Austria to visit her relatives.[13] That year, Graven authored a paper on "A Case of Smoke Phobia".By 1926, it was reported that Graven had become an internationally recognized "authority on shell shock".[14]
While at St. Elizabeth's, Graven collaborated with Alfred Korzybski, proposing the term "Unsane" as a descriptor.[15] [16] In 1926, Graven and Korzybski were summoned by psychiatrist Knute Houck, who they had been "tutoring in psychoanalysis". Houck reported having beaten his wife who was now missing.[17]
In 1930, while at St. Elizabeth's, Graven authored a paper titled "Case Study of a Negro", one of the earliest psychoanalytic discussions of African-Americans.[18] [15]
Graven authored a booklet titled "Social Sanity and the Birth of Words, Part I".
Philip S Graven died in August 1977.