Duke University School of Medicine - Aesculapian Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Hohman contributed significantly, partly based on his contact with these men. In addition to contributions to the medical literature on the formation of life patterns and on behavior disturbances in children, he wrote a popular book on raising chi'dren As rho Twig is Bent. During World War II, he served with the Navy studying and treating combat fatigue and war psy- choses. Following the end of the war he contributed further studies on the rehabilitation of veterans. In 1946 Dr. Hohman joined the Duke faculty as Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Pediatrics. He has actively taught both the second year course in mental status examination and the clinical quarter in psychiatry. His teaching has been clear and concise. ln a field where it is dillieult to separate fact from fiction, he has constantly striven to be objective. He has been a demanding mentor. never satisfied with half'-truths or gibberish. And he has given an unusually large portion of his time to teaching. While at Duke he has repeated'y demonstrated the value of electro-convulsive therapy in affective disorders. ln conjunction with the neurosurgical staff he has studied the treatment of malignant mental illness with pre-frontal lobotomy. . as READING IN HIS OFFICE TEACHING A CLASS OF JUNIOR lN1EDlCAL STUDENTS PAGE

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,Ma v. 'Q.W-if DR. HOHMAN. IN 1946. Pkhshmss A PATILNT WITH STAMMERING TO A GROUP OF STUDENTS Dr. Hohman was graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1917. After a year of internship in Pediatrics. he was appointed a resident in psychiatry at the Henry Phipps Psy- chiatric Clinic at the Hopkins. under Adolph Meyer. His postgraduate training included a year in Vienna working in experimental neurology. His early work was primarily concerned with the psychotic mani- festations of epidemic encephalitis and the histopa- thology and eye signs in postencephaltic Parkinsons syndrome. He continued on at Phipps as a member of the faculty. Dr. Hohman then initiated his lifelong ixc is I0 study of the affective disorders, a field in which he has become a widely recognized authority. Signifi- cant contributions in this field included the recogni- tion of the usual benign course of affective disorders. He also showed that hypochondriasis and anxiety neurosis could be included in the affective disorders. ln addition to Dr. Meyer. two other men greatly inliuenced Dr. Hohman's thinking. They were John B. Watson. the father of behaviorism, and Horsley Gantt. probably the most important investigator in the field of the conditional reflex theory of Pavlov and the head of the Pavlovian Laboratories at Hop- kins. Child psychiatry is another field to which Dr.

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W. - R, ,ax i DEAN WooDHALi. PAYS TRIBUTE TO DR. HOHMAN AT A RECENT DINNEIX IN His HONOR Nationally known as a leader in the field of cerebral palsy, Dr. Hohman has served as president of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy. He was instrumental in the founding of the North Caro- lina Cerebral Palsy Hospital and has served on the stafT since its conception. The accomplishments of Dr. Hohman are im- pressive. but it is not these alone which make him loved and respected. There are qualities to his manner that are diliicult to characterize. Grace. charm. and interest are part of his person. He is ,i5l2 actively concerned with all those about him. Hardly a day passes that he does not invest of his time in helping a student with a personal problem, or se- curing medical aid for people who cannot afford treatment. or trying to answer queries for informa- tion of which he has special knowledge. His mind abounds with curiosity about all of medicine, and his storehouse of knowledge is phenomenal. To Leslie Benjamin Hohman, M.D.. physician. mentor. and friend, we respectfully dedicate this yearbook.