Marianne S. Breslin Oral History Interview, June 28, 2007

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Summary

Creator:
Breslin, Marianne S. and Duke University. Medical Center. Archives.
Abstract:
Dr. Marianne S. Breslin is a former head of the Psychosomatic Division of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. This collection contains 1 oral history interview conducted on June 12, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry. In this interview, Breslin discusses her experiences as a woman and mother practicing psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina Hospitals.
Extent:
1 interview (4 CDs, 1 transcript)
Language:
English
Collection ID:
OH.BRESLINM

Background

Scope and content:

Includes 1 oral history interview with Dr. Marianne S. Breslin conducted on June 28, 2007 by Jessica Roseberry.
In this interview, Breslin discusses her experiences as a woman and mother practicing psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina Hospitals.

Biographical / historical:

Dr. Marianne S. Breslin received her medical education in Germany, graduating from the Medical Academy of Duesseldorf in 1946. After a residency in general surgery, internal medicine, and in thoracic surgery, she came to Presbyterian Hospital in New York City in 1951 under a Marshall Plan fellowship. She came to North Carolina with her husband in 1952 and received psychiatric residency training at the combined program of Dorothea Dix Hospital and the North Carolina Memorial Hospital of the University of North Carolina (UNC) in the 1950s. She was offered a faculty position in the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine at UNC in 1960. Breslin was assistant administrator of the Adult Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic and was involved in the supervision of residents in psychotherapy and family therapy. She was involved in research projects and was a member of a subcommittee to study curriculum changes in the residency training program at UNC. During this time, she also was in the psychoanalytic training program.
In 1968, Breslin resigned with the intention of entering private practice inpsychiatry. However, she received an invitation to join the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center. From 1968 to 1986, Breslin was associate professor of psychiatry and head of the Psychosomatic Division. During this time, she was involved in the psychiatric training programs for residents and medical students in psychosomatic medicine and the consultation service to other psychiatric specialties. She conducted research on personality traits in stroke and heart attack patients, unresolved grief reactions in psychosomatic disorders, and the application of family therapy to psychosomatic patients. Breslin was a consultant to Watts Hospital, John Umstead Hospital, and the Durham Veterans Hospital. She served on many committees at Duke University School of Medicine, and was a consultant to the Comprehensive Cancer Research Program and the Pain Clinic. After her retirement from Duke University School of Medicine, Breslin had a practice in general psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and psychoanalysis. She continued as a consultant to the Durham Veterans Hospital and served as a consultant to the Social Security Disability Determination until 2006.
Breslin has received many honors, including the Honored Teacher Award from the Duke University Medical Center's Psychiatric Residents Group. She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the North Carolina District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association, and the North Carolina Neuropsychiatric Association, where she served as president from 1980 to 1981. She is also a life fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and the Southern Psychiatric Association. She has been a member of numerous other organizations, including the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association.

Acquisition information:
Accession A2007.149 (June 2007)
Processing information:

Processed by Jessica Roseberry: January 2009; encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas: February 2009

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