Irwin M. Marcus (March 18, 1919 – October 3, 2021) was an American board certified
psychiatrist
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,
neurologist
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,
psychoanalyst
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, medical educator, visual artist, and sculptor. He was a practicing psychiatrist,
sex therapist
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,
marriage counselor, psychoanalyst, child psychiatrist, and
family counselor for over six decades. Marcus started the
Child Psychiatry
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Program at
Tulane University School of Medicine
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History
The school was ...
in 1952, he was a Founder and President of the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, Emeritus Professor of
Clinical Psychiatry
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at
LSU School of Medicine, and was considered a psychoanalytic scholar.
[Kintish, L., & Marcus, I. (1973). U.S. Patent No. 3,750,582. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.]
In June 2012, the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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named Marcus a Distinguished and Life Member. He was also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the
American Psychiatric Association
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and a
Fellow of the American College of Physicians
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.
Personal life
Marcus was married to Dorothy Elrod, sister of Chicago politician and judge
Richard Elrod
Richard J. Elrod (February 17, 1934 – April 19, 2014) was an American jurist, sheriff, and legislator.
Biography
Born to a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois, Elrod received his bachelor's and law degrees from Northwestern University.
El ...
.
He was then married to former journalist
Angela Hill
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.
He
turned 100
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in March 2019, and died on October 3, 2021, at the age of 102.
Military service
Marcus was a
World War II
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veteran
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A military veteran that h ...
. The day after the
attack on Pearl Harbor
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, he enlisted in the
United States Army
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as a
neurologist
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and
psychiatrist
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.
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Publications
Marcus's writings are reflected in his authorship or co-authorship in hundreds of published medical articles, chapters and books on various aspects of sex therapy, marriage counseling, child psychiatry
Child and adolescent psychiatry (or pediatric psychiatry) is a branch of psychiatry that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. It investigates the biopsychosocial f ...
, family counseling, psychoanalysis and medical education, as well as ethical
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, socio-economic
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and philosophic
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discussions in these fields.
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References
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1919 births
2021 deaths
American centenarians
American child psychiatrists
American neurologists
American psychoanalysts
Jewish psychoanalysts
American Jews
Men centenarians
United States Army Medical Corps officers
University of Illinois alumni
Military personnel from Chicago
United States Army personnel of World War II
Military psychiatrists