Frederick Redlich

Who was Frederick Redlich?

Frederick Carl Redlich was a psychiatrist and academic administrator. He was dean of the Yale School of Medicine from 1967 to 1972.

Redlich was born in Vienna, the son of Ludwig and Emma Redlich, and received his M.D. in 1935 from the University of Vienna. He moved to the United States in 1938 with his wife Elsa and became a U.S. citizen in 1943. He then married operatic mezzo-soprano Herta Glaz with whom he was together for nearly 50 years.

He joined the faculty of Yale in 1942. In addition to his time as dean of the School of Medicine, Redlich was head of the department of psychiatry from 1950 to 1967.

He was a member of the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was honored with Distinguished Service Awards from the American College of Psychiatrists and the American Psychiatric Association.

Redlich is best known within the field of Community Mental Health for his groundbreaking study done in the late 1950s with psychologist August Hollingshead. In the study, Social Class and Mental Illness the two researched the mentally ill population of New Haven, Connecticut and the treatment they received within a calendar year.