Albert Deutsch

Albert Deutsch (1905–1961) was an American journalist and social historian. He received a George Polk Award for "Science Reporting" in 1948.

Background Albert Deutsch was born on October 23, 1905, on the lower East Side of New York City to immigrant parents from Latvia.

Later, he published several books based on his columns. In 1945, he wrote about the care of veterans in the Veterans Administration hospitals. In 1948, his book The Shame of the States exposed the conditions in state mental hospitals. In 1950, he wrote Our Rejected Children, and in 1955, The Trouble with Cops. After the New York Star folded, he wrote briefly for the New York Post.

In 1945, he received the Heywood Broun award for his newspaper work. In 1947, the Newspaper Guild honored him as a distinguished humanitarian in American journalism. In 1948, he was elected to the Innominate Society. In 1949, he received the Lasker Award presented by the National Committee against Mental Illness. The American Psychiatric Association bestowed upon him an honorary membership in 1958.

In 1956, he received a grant from the National Association for Mental Health; later supplemented by funds from the National Institute of Mental Health to prepare a survey of mental health research in the United States.

Death

Deutsch died June 18, 1961, in England while attending a conference hosted by the World Federation for Mental Health.

Works

Deutsch, Albert. “The History of Mental Hygiene,” in American Psychiatric Association's One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944). Deutsch, Albert. “Military Psychiatry: The Civil War, 1861-65,” in American Psychiatric Association's One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944). Deutsch, Albert. “Military Psychiatry: World War II, 1941-43,” in American Psychiatric Association's One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944). Deutsch, Albert. Sex Habits of American Men: A Symposium on the Kinsey Report. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1948. Deutsch, Albert. The Shame of the States. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948. Deutsch, Albert. Our Rejected Children. Boston: Little, Brown, 1950. Deutsch, Albert. “Recent Trends in Mental Hospital Care,” Address given before the National Conference of Social Work in Atlantic City, N J, on April 26, 1950. Philadelphia, National Mental Health Foundation, 1950. Summary available in conference proceedings, pp. 275-276. Deutsch, Albert. “Tomorrow’s Challenges to the Medical Sciences: Report on a Conference of Medical Scientists and Corporation Executives Sponsored by the National Fund for Medical Education, the United States Steel Foundation, Inc., and the International Harvester Foundation at the University of Chicago, March 4, 1957.” New York, 1958. Deutsch, Albert, ed. The Encyclopedia of Mental Health. New York, 1963.