© The Abraham A. Low Institute 1991, 1998
Compiled by Marilyn Low Schmitt
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For publications about the work of Abraham Low and Recovery, Inc., see Abraham A. Low, MD, and Recovery, Inc.: A Bibliography (published by the Abraham A. Low Institute).
(N) designates neurological studies.
1997
Third edition of Mental Health Through Will-Training. Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing, 1995. 448 pp.
Contains revised "Preface" and "Concise Outline of Recovery's Self-Help Techniques" (original texts in Appendices), new section entitled "About Recovery, Inc.," consecutive chapter numbers, and changes to punctuation and paragraph breaks.
1995
Manage Your Fears, Manage Your Anger: A Psychiatrist Speaks. Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing, 1995. 470 pp.
Notes: Contains transcripts of 70 lectures taped in 1953 and 1954.
35 audio tapes of 70 lectures, 1953, 1954. Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing, 1995.
1991
Mental Illness, Stigma, and Self Help. The Founding of Recovery, Inc. Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing, 1991. 174 pp.
Notes: First published as The Historical Development of Recovery's Self-Help Project (title on cover) and Recovery's Self-Help Techniques, History and Description (title on title page), Chicago, Recovery, Inc., 1943 (see below, The Techniques of Self Help in Psychiatric After-Care, 1943).
1984
Peace Versus Power in the Family. Domestic Discord and Emotional Distress. Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing, 1984. 197 pp.
Notes: First published as Lectures to Relatives of Former Patients, Chicago, Recovery, Inc., 1943 (see below, The Techniques of Self Help in Psychiatric After-Care, 1943); republished under original title by Boston, Christopher Publishing, 1967.
After 1953
Selections from Dr. Low's Works (1950-1953). Chicago, Recovery, Inc., n.d. [after 1967]. 132 pp.
Notes: Previously published by Recovery, Inc., in 2 vols.: Vol. I (1950-51), 1966; Vol. II (1952-53), 1967.
1953
"What the Dentist Should Know About Himself." Oral Hygiene. Vol. 43, 1953, pp. 496-500.
1950
Mental Health Through Will-Training. A System of Self-Help in Psychotherapy As Practiced by Recovery, Incorporated. Original publisher Boston, Christopher Publishing, 1950. Present publisher: Glencoe, IL, Willett Publishing. 336 pp.
Notes: Second edition 1952.
Third edition, 1997, contains revised "Preface" and "Concise Outline of Recovery's Self-Help Techniques" (original texts in Appendices), new section entitled "About Recovery, Inc.," consecutive chapter numbers, and changes to punctuation and paragraph breaks.
1949
"A Project for Rehabilitating Postpsychotic and Long-Term Psychoneurotic Patients." Rehabilitation of the Handicapped; A Survey of Means and Methods. William H. Soden, ed. NY, Ronald Press, 1949.
Notes: Revised from Sociometry, 1945 (see below, with notes).
Before 1948
The Myth of Nervous Fatigue. An Interview Conducted in a Group Psychotherapy Class with Private Patients. Recovery Publication No. 12. Chicago, Recovery, Inc., n.d. [1946-1948]. 7 pp.
Notes: Reprinted from Recovery Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, August 1946, pp. 37-43. Wabash Ave. address (1945-48) printed on cover. Same title used for article recording patients' discussion of original article: Recovery Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, May 1947, pp. 40-42.
The Mental Patient Mismanaged by His Relatives. Two Case Studies. Chicago, Recovery, Inc., n.d. [before 1948].
Notes: Pamphlet listed on order form from 185 N. Wabash (i.e., 1945-48). Reprinted from Lost and Found, vol. 3, no. 3, May-June 1940, pp. 71-75, 86.
1945
"The Combined System of Group Psychotherapy and Self-Help as
Practiced by Recovery, Inc." Sociometry. Vol. 8, 1945, pp. 332-337.
Notes: Presented as papers to the American Psychiatric Association, May 16, 1944; and to the Illinois Psychiatric Society, December 6, 1945. First in a series of articles explaining the Method used by Recovery, Inc.: "A Concise Outline of Recovery's Self-Help Techniques," Recovery Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, June 1946, pp. 1-7; pamphlet of the same title, Recovery Publication No. 11 (n.d.); "A Project for Rehabilitating Postpsychotic and Long-Term Psychoneurotic Patients" in Soden, 1949 (see above); section entitled "A Concise Outline of Recovery's Self-Help Techniques" in Mental Health Through Will-Training, 1950 (see above); and pamphlet entitled "A Concise Outline of the Self-Help Techniques for Mental Health Developed by Abraham A. Low, MD," published by the Abraham A. Low Institute, 1991.
Sabotaging Sleep. An Interview Conducted in a Group Psychotherapy Class with Private Patients. Recovery Publication No. 10. Chicago, Recovery, Inc., 1945. 11 pp.
Notes: Pamphlet slightly revised and reprinted in the Recovery Journal, vol. 2, no. 3, May 1947, pp. 33-40. Reprinted as new pamphlet before 1948; Wabash Ave. address (1945-48) printed on cover.
1943
The Techniques of Self Help in Psychiatric After-Care. Developed by Recovery, Inc., the Association of Former Mental Patients. 3 vols. Chicago, Recovery, Inc., 1943.
Vol. 1: The Historical Development of Recovery's Self-Help Project (title on cover). Recovery's Self-Help Techniques, History and Description (title on title page). 138 pp. Republished as Mental Illness, Stigma and Self-Help. The Founding of Recovery, Inc.; see above, 1991.
Vol. 2: Group Psychotherapy. A Record of Class Interviews with Patients Suffering from Mental and Nervous Ailments. 88 pp.
Vol. 3: Lectures to Relatives of Former Patients. 125 pp. Republished as Peace Versus Power in the Family. Domestic Discord and Emotional Distress; see above, 1984.
1941
With Irving C. Sherman, MD, and John C. Mergener, MD. "The Comparative Effects of Coma Doses of Amorphous Insulin Administered Intravenously and Subcutaneously to Psychotic Patients." American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 98, 1941, pp. 77-82.
"Group Psychotherapy." Illinois Psychiatric Journal. Vol. 1, no. 2, July 1941, pp. 3-4.
Notes: Read at a Neurology-Psychiatry Symposium, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Jan. 11, 1941.
1940
With Israel R. Sonenthal, MD. "Electrocardiographic Studies After Treatment with Insulin and Metrazol Shock." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. Vol. 91, 1940, pp. 423-427.
With Elizabeth MacDougall, MD, Edward Ross, MD, Mandel Sachs, MD, and David Levitin, MD. "Further Experiences with Picrotoxin as a Convulsant in the Treatment of Mental Illnesses. A Method of Combining Picrotoxin with Metrazol." American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 97, 1940, pp. 686-690.
"Lost and Found. Former Mental Patients Carry Idea of Recovery to the Public." The Modern Hospital. Vol. 54, no. 2, February 1940, pp. 59-60.
1939
With Nelda McKee Lukins, BS, OT Reg. "Shock Treatments for Psychotic Patients and Their Relationship to Occupational Therapy." Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation. Vol. 18, 1939, pp. 85-91.
Notes: Read at Tri-State Hospital Assembly, Chicago, May 5, 1938.
"The Present Status of the Shock Treatment of the `Functional' Psychoses." Illinois Medical Journal. February, 1939, pp. 1-15.
Notes: Read to Section on Medicine, Illinois State Medical Society, May 18, 1938, Springfield, IL.
With Melvin F. Blaurock, MD, Mandel Sachs, MD, Chester Wade, MD, and Edward Ross, MD. "Picrotoxin as a Convulsant in Treatment of Certain Mental Illnesses." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 41, 1939, pp. 747-754.
With Melvin F. Blaurock, MD, and Mandel Sachs, MD. "Influence of Fear, Pharmacologic Action and Convulsion in Metrazol Therapy." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 42, 1939, pp. 233-236.
"Placement of the Former Mental Patient." Employment Service News (U.S. Department of Labor). Vol. 6, no. 2, February, 1939, pp. 14-16.
With Maurice Kaplan, MD. "Glucose and Insulin Tolerance: Relation to Insulin Shock Treatment." American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 96, 1939, pp. 689-697.
With H. Douglas Singer, MD, FRCP, and Catherine L. McCorry, MD. "Life Situation Tests as Aids in Psychiatric Prognosis." American Journal of Psychiatry. Vol. 96, 1939, pp. 147-162.
Notes: Read at 94th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, San Francisco, June 6-10, 1938.
What the Relatives of Mental Patients Ought to Know about Mental Disease. Chicago, Recovery, Inc., the Association of Nervous and Former Mental Patients, [1939 ff].
The Manic Mood Disturbance. 7 pp.
Notes: Reprinted from Lost and Found (first newsletter of Recovery, Inc.), vol. 2, no. 5, 1939.
The Scare of Heredity. 10 pp.
Notes: Reprinted from Lost and Found, vol. 4, no. 3, 1941.
Dementia Praecox. The Disease of the Split Personality. pp?
Notes: DO NOT HAVE. Listed in Recovery Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, June 1946. If anyone finds, please send copy to the Abraham A. Low Institute.
The Mental Patient Is Not an Offender. Essays and Addresses on Commitment, Court Record and Stigmatization. [Chicago], The Association of the Former Patients of the Psychiatric Institute of the University of Illinois and of the State Department of Public Welfare, n.d. [1939 ff]. 16 pp.
Notes: Pamphlet reprinting ten articles and letters from vols. 1 and 2 [1938-39] of Lost and Found (first newsletter of Recovery, Inc.).
1938
(N) "References to Sex Organs and Functions in Speech Productions of Two Preschool Children." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 39, 1938, pp. 519-532.
Notes: Presented to the Chicago Neurological Society, May 20, 1937; and to the American Speech Correction Association, Palmer House, Chicago, October 11-13, 1937. Summary published in the latter's Proceedings, Vol. 8, pp. 70-74 (mimeographed, March 1938) as "The Incidence of Utterances Concerning Sex Organs and Sex Functions in a Two Year Speech Record of Two Preschool Children."
"An Evaluation of the Shock Treatment of the Psychoses." The Psychiatric Exchange of the Illinois State Institutions. Vol. 1, 1938, pp. 4-6.
Notes: Mimeograph.
"The Present Status of Sodium Amytal Therapy." The Psychiatric Exchange of the Illinois State Institutions. Vol. 1, 1938, pp. 43-47.
Notes: Mimeograph.
"Shock Therapy and Follow-Up Investigation." The Psychiatric Exchange of the Illinois State Institutions. Vol 1, 1938, pp. 123-124.
Notes: Address to the Peoria Medical Society, May 20, 1938. Mimeograph.
"New Developments in the After Care of Mental Patients." Welfare Bulletin (Illinois State Department of Public Welfare). Vol. 29, no. 8, September 1938, pp. 1, 6-7.
Notes: "A similar Association was formed at the Peoria State Hospital at a meeting of former patients on August 27th. Dr. A.A. Low addressed this meeting. Preparations are now in progress to fuse the Chicago and Peoria organization into one State organization."
"Metrazol Shock Treatment of the `Functional' Psychoses." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 39, 1938, pp. 717-736.
"Occupational Therapy and Its Bearing on Shock Therapy." Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation. Vol. 17, 1938, pp. 369-373.
Notes: Read before the 22nd annual meeting of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Sept. 11-15, 1938.
1936
(N) Studies in Infant Speech and Thought. Part I: The Development of Sentence Structure in Infancy from the Viewpoint of Grammar. A Quantitative Analysis of the Continuous Speech Record of Two Infants. University of Illinois Bulletin. Vol. 33, 1936. Illinois Medical and Dental Monographs. Vol. 1, no. 2, 71 pp.
1933
(N) With H. Douglas Singer, MD, FRCP. "Acalculia (Henschen). A Clinical Study." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 29, 1933, pp. 467-497.
1931
(N) "A Case of Agrammatism in the English Language. A Clinical Study in Categorial Thought." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 25, 1931, pp. 556-597.
1930
(N) "Acute, Toxic (Nonsuppurative) Encephalitis in Children, a Clinicopathologic Study of Five Cases." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 23, 1930, pp. 696-714.
1929
(N) "Acute Ascending Myelomalacia, With the Clinical Picture of Landry's Paralysis: Clinico-Pathologic Report of a Case." Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. Vol. 21, 1929, pp. 594-606.
1925
"Cancer and Allied Hypertonic Disturbances." Cancer. Vol. 3, no. 1, October, 1925, pp. 1-10.
Notes: "Cancer...is due to chronic overirritation....The commonest form of chronic overirritation is emotional strain....To prevent cancer...we would have to prevent chronic emotional strain."
Read before the American Association for the Prevention and Cure of Cancer, Atlantic City, N.J., May 27, 1925.
Undated
"Moderne Wirtschaft und moderne Seele in der Beurteilung des Nervenarztes." Die Neue Zeit (Chicago, 2612 Hampden Ct.). Vol. 6, nos. 10, 11, 22, 23, 26, 28 (n.d.), 32 pp.
Notes: "Energiestauung und Abreaktion. Der aggressive Neurotiker. Der Defensivneurotiker: a) Der Idealfanatiker. b) Der Entwerter."