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"National Institutes Of Mental Health" Stanley Yolles Hand Signed 3X5 Card:
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Up for sale "Psychiatrist" Stanley Yolles Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Stanley
Fausst Yolles (April 19, 1919 -
January 12, 2001) was an American psychiatrist who was head of the National
Institute of Mental Health from 1964-1970. He resigned after
publicly clashing with the Nixon administration over drug policy. Yolles was
born in New York City to
Louis, who owned a dress factory, and Rose, a milliner. He graduated from Brooklyn College in 1939, received his master's degree in parasitology from Harvard University in
1940 and graduated from New York
University College of Medicine in 1950. During World War II he served with the United States Army Corps of Engineers as a parasitologist
in Latin America, becoming
associate director of the Army's Sector Epidemiological Laboratory in the
British West Indies. After the war he was commissioned in the United
States Public Health Service and did his residency at Public Health Service
Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. It
was there when he decided to turn his focus away from infectious
disease to psychiatry. Yolles
joined the National Institute of Mental Health in 1954 as a staff psychiatrist,
He became associate director of the community services branch in 1955, and
later director of community services. After becoming deputy director in 1963,
he became director the following year after the retirement of Robert Felix. In
1967, Yolles was part of the first mental health delegation to the USSR. As
director of the NIMH, Yolles spoke out against strict drug laws, saying that
punishments for marijuana possession were worse than
the crime in front of congressional committees. Angered by this, Richard Nixon removed Yolles from his position on June 2,
1970. Yolles responded with a letter of resignation that condemned Nixon for
abandoning the mentally ill. In
1971 Yolles was asked to create the department of psychiatry at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, which he headed until 1981.
In 1982 he became emeritus status as professor of psychiatry at SUNY, Stony
Brook. At
the time of his dismissal from NIMH, Yolles was assistant surgeon general and
a rear admiral in the Public Health Service. He was also a
recipient of the HEW's Meritorious
Service Medal and the Distinguished Service Medal.
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