Carl Binger

Carl Binger (1889–1976), AKA Carl A. L. Binger, was a 20th-century American psychiatrist. He wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including medicine and psychiatry, and testified in the trial of Alger Hiss.

Background Carl Alfred Lanning Binger was born in 1889, the son of Frances (née Newgass) and Gustav Binger. He had three siblings: Elsie Naumburg, Robert Binger, and Walter D. Binger. He graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1914.

Career In 1943, E. B. White consulted Binger, a pioneer in the field of psychosomatic medicine, during a nervous breakdown in the spring of that year.

In 1946, Binger was certified as a psychiatrist after deferral for insufficient training.

Hiss Case Binger's wife was a college classmate of Alger Hiss's future wife Priscilla at Bryn Mawr College. Binger himself was a friend of Louis Weiss, brother of Carol Weiss King. King was a member of the International Juridical Association, of which Hiss (and several others in the Ware group had been a member.

On August 17, 1948, The New York Times interviewed Binger during a conference on mental health and reported: Professor Binger pointed to the "bugaboo of communism," which he said was now spreading a state of "neurotic anxiety" throughout the United States. Fanned largely by "big business" and by vote-getters, this "neurosis," Professor Binger added, has become confused in public minds with the "legitimate fears" of Russia and, under such conditions, he asserted, not only the people of the United States but also its leaders and policymakers are in danger of losing a rational, objective approach to world problems."

In his testimony with Hiss's lead attorney Claude Cross, the following exchange occurred: In his testimony with Prosecutor Thomas Francis Murphy, the following exchange occurred regarding the Pumpkin Papers:

Personal and death Binger was one of the oldest friends of American journalist Walter Lippman.

Awards, honors In 1959, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Works "The Pressures on College Girls Today" (February 1961 Atlantic) Revolutionary doctor: Benjamin Rush, 1746-1813. W.W. Norton, 1966. The Doctor's Job. W. W. Norton, 1945. Personality in arterial hypertension (Psychomatic Medicine Monograph). 1945. More about Psychiatry. University of Chicago Press, 1949. The two faces of medicine: essays. W. W. Norton, 1967. Thomas Jefferson, a Well-tempered Mind. W. W. Norton, 1970. .