Jelliffe, Smith Ely

Jelliffe, Smith Ely (1866–1945) neurologist, psychoanalyst, editor, author; born in New York City. After starting out as a civil engineer, he switched to medicine, taking his M.D. in 1889; that same year he cofounded the important Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, becoming sole owner and managing editor (1902–45). Meanwhile, he had also shown an interest in pharmacology, teaching it at the New York College of Pharmacy and editing the Journal of Pharmacology (1897–1901). In 1907 he became a clinical professor of mental diseases at Fordham University Medical School (1907–13); while there he invited Carl Jung for a famous lecture series in 1912. Jelliffe himself began to practice Freudian psychoanalysis, eventually earning the sobriquet, "father of psychosomatic medicine." His greatest influence, however, probably came from his work as an editor and as coauthor of Diseases of the Nervous System (6 editions, 1915–35).