Louis A. Gottschalk

Louis August Gottschalk (August 26, 1916 – November 27, 2008) was an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist.

Louis A. Gottschalk
Born(1916-08-26)August 26, 1916
Missouri, US
DiedNovember 27, 2008(2008-11-27) (aged 92)
California, US
Alma materSoldan High School, St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis
Known forGottschalk-Gleser Scales
AwardsUCI Medal
Scientific career
FieldsNeuroscience
InstitutionsWashington University in St. Louis
US Public Health Service
Michael Reese Hospital
National Institute of Mental Health
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
University of Cincinnati
University of California, Irvine
InfluencesCarl Cori

Gottschalk earned his M.D. at Washington University in St. Louis in 1943 and his Ph.D. from Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in 1977.

He was the founding chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at University of California Irvine College of Medicine.

He gained national prominence by announcing in 1987 that Ronald Reagan had been suffering from diminished mental ability as early as 1980. He came to this conclusion by using the Gottschalk-Gleser scales, an internationally used diagnostic tool he helped develop for charting impairments in brain function, to measure speech patterns in Reagan's 1980 and 1984 presidential debates.[1]

Gottschalk coinvented software that uncovered a link between childhood attention deficit disorder and adult addiction to alcohol and drugs. In 2004, at age 87, he published his last book, World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind.

In 2006, his son filed a suit alleging that Gottschalk had lost millions of dollars in an advance-fee scam.[2]

Gottschalk died at his home on November 27, 2008.[3]

Bibliography

Selected books
  • Louis A. Gottschalk and Goldine C. Gleser (1969), Measurement of Psychological States Through the Content Analysis of Verbal Behaviour, Univ. of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-01482-4
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (1979), The Content analysis of verbal behavior: further studies, SP Medical Scientific Books, ISBN 978-0-89335-047-5
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (1984), How to understand and analyze your own dreams, Corona Del Mar, Calif.: Art Reproductions Press, ISBN 978-0-939373-00-0
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (1985), The tree of knowledge, Corona del Mar, Calif.: Eden Press, ISBN 978-0-533-01652-5
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (1989), How to do self-analysis and other self-psychotherapies, Northvale, N.J.: J. Aronson, ISBN 978-0-87668-847-2
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (1995), Content analysis of verbal behavior: new findings and clinical applications, Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 978-0-8058-1558-0
  • Gottschalk, Louis A. (2004), World War II: Neuropsychiatric Casualties, Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN 978-1-59033-834-6

Selected scientific articles
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References
  1. John Needham (December 24, 1987). "UCI Study Calls Reagan Intellectually Impaired". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  2. William Lobdell (March 2, 2006). "UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails, Suit Says". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  3. Bunney, William E (2009-11-10). "Louis A Gottschalk". Neuropsychopharmacology. 34 (13): 2781. doi:10.1038/npp.2009.38.
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