Irwin Marcus
{{Short description|American psychiatrist (1919–2021)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|03|18}}
| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, US
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|10|3|1919|03|18}}
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- {{marriage|Dorothy Elrod||1992-10-13|end=died }}
- {{marriage|Angela Hill|2001||}}
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| children = 3
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| profession = Psychiatrist
| field = Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
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| education = University of Illinois (M.D.)
| work_institutions = Cook County Hospital
Columbia University
Tulane University School of Medicine
LSU School of Medicine
New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute
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Irwin M. Marcus (March 18, 1919 – October 3, 2021) was an American board certified psychiatrist, neurologist, psychoanalyst, medical educator, visual artist, and sculptor. He was a practicing psychiatrist, sex therapist, marriage counselor, psychoanalyst, child psychiatrist, and family counselor for over six decades. Marcus started the Child Psychiatry Program at Tulane University School of Medicine in 1952, he was a Founder and President of the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at LSU School of Medicine, and was considered a psychoanalytic scholar.{{cite web|url=http://tulane.edu/som/departments/psychiatry/child/child-and-adolescent-section-history.cfm|title=Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Neurology, Child and Adolescent section History|work=/tulane.edu|access-date=2013-08-03|archive-date=2013-08-03|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130803185822/http://tulane.edu/som/departments/psychiatry/child/child-and-adolescent-section-history.cfm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.acopsa.org/acopsa_assets/VolkanLectureandThomasJeffersonInterview.pdf|title=American College of Psychoanalysts|work=/acopsa.org|access-date=2013-08-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130726201153/http://acopsa.org/acopsa_assets/VolkanLectureandThomasJeffersonInterview.pdf|archive-date=2013-07-26|url-status=usurped}}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 named Marcus a Distinguished and Life Member. He was also a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.{{cite web|url=http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Life_Members/Life_Member_Archives/100_Oldest_and_Distinguished_Members.aspx|title=American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry|work=/aacap.org|access-date=2013-08-03}}{{cite web|url=http://www.psychiatry.org/|title=American Psychiatric Association| work=/psychiatry.org|access-date=2013-08-03}}
Personal life
Marcus was married to Dorothy Elrod, sister of Chicago politician and judge Richard Elrod.{{Cite web|title=Hon. Richard J. Elrod, Cook County Circuit Judge and dedicated and beloved civic leader and public servant, passed away at the age of 80 |publisher=Chicago Tribune|date=2014-04-21 |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chicagotribune/obituary.aspx?n=richard-j-elrod&pid=170730239 }} He was then married to former journalist Angela Hill.{{Cite web|first=Keith |last=Marshall |title=Angela Hill finds high-rise happiness in a New Orleans aerie with Irwin Marcus |publisher=The Times-Picayune|date=2015-11-05 |url=https://www.nola.com/homegarden/2015/11/angela_hill_condo_tv_wwl.html |access-date=2019-05-30}}
He turned 100 in March 2019,[https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/article_876cd080-3313-5835-9206-a553b0d7e600.html Angela Hill hosts 100th birthday celebration for husband Irwin Marcus] and died on October 3, 2021, at the age of 102.{{Cite web|url=https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/dr-irwin-marcus-noted-psychiatrist-and-husband-of-former-wwl-tv-anchor-angela-hill-dies-at-102/289-711eeddc-ae83-4034-9458-1dacfd5e9cb4|title = Dr. Irwin Marcus, noted psychiatrist and husband of former WWL-TV anchor Angela Hill, dies at 102|date = 4 October 2021}}
Military service
Marcus was a World War II veteran. The day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Army as a neurologist and psychiatrist.{{cite news |last=Shelton |first=Melinda |date=2019-03-17 |title=Angela Hill hosts 100th birthday celebration for husband Irwin Marcus |url=https://expo.nola.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/03/4b8e94540b8780/angela-hill-hosts-100th-birthday-celebration-for-husband-irwin-marcus-see-photos.html |work=nola.com|access-date=2019-05-30}} [https://expo.nola.com/life-and-culture/g66l-2019/03/4b8e94540b8780/angela-hill-hosts-100th-birthday-celebration-for-husband-irwin-marcus-see-photos.html archived]
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, family counseling, psychoanalysis and medical education, as well as ethical, socio-economic and philosophic discussions in these fields.
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- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |title=Why Men Have Affairs? |year=2004 |publisher=Bon Temps Press |location=New Orleans |isbn=978-0975359204 |oclc=56315166 |lccn=2004104195}}
- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |last2=Francis |first2=John J. |translator=Maura Pizzorno |title=La masturbazione |trans-title=Masturbation: From infancy to senescence |year=1979 |publisher=Feltrinelli |location=Milano |language=it |oclc=450626870}}
- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |last2=Francis |first2=John J. |title=Masturbation: From infancy to senescence |year=1975 |publisher=International Universities Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0823631506 |oclc=1176970 |lccn=73016855}}
- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |title=Currents in Psychoanalysis |date=1972 |publisher=International Universities Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0823611058 |oclc=309230 |lccn=74139116 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/currentsinpsycho00marc }}
- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |title=An interdisciplinary approach to accident patterns in children |year=1960 |
publisher=Child Development Publications of the Society for Research in Child Development |location=Lafayette, IN |oclc=1082420 |lccn=60002550}}
- {{cite book |last1=Newton |first1=Niles |editor1-first=Paul |editor1-last=Gyorgy |editor2-first=Irwin M. |editor2-last=Marcus |
editor3-first=Thaddeus L. |editor3-last=Montgomery |title=The Family Book of Child Care |year=1957 |publisher=Published by Harper & Row |location=New York |oclc=1347503 |asin=B0006AU6L2 |lccn=55008058}}
- {{cite book |last1=Marcus |first1=Irwin M. |title=Psychoanalytic Group Therapy with Fathers of Emotionally Disturbed Preschool Children |year=1956 |publisher=Tulane University |location=New Orleans |asin=B000K7SLIG}}
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Category:United States Army personnel of World War II