Savage, Charles (1918-2007)
Person
Dates
- Existence: September 25, 1918 - December 12, 2007
Biographical Information
Charles W. Savage was born on September 25, 1918 in Berlin, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1939, an M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1945, and an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1999. He also attended the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute in 1957 and served as a Lieutenant Mass Communication Specialist in the United States Navy from 1946-1953. He published fifty papers on psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis, several of which were co-authored with his wife, Ethel. He was a member of the editorial board of Psychiatry and a member of the American Psychiatric Association (fellow), American Psychoanalytic Association, American Electoencephlogram Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington Psychoanalytic Society, Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society. Savage was also a poet and published, in Spanish and English, Las Tinieblas en el Dia de Pentecostes. Upon his retirement, he became a medical missionary to Guatemala. At the age of 89, Savage passed away at his home on December 12, 2007.
Professional Chronology
- 1945
- Intern at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- 1946
- Assistant resident in psychiatry at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- 1947-1948
- Resident psychiatrist at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
- 1948-1949
- Chief psychiatrist at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina
- 1949-1952
- Research Psychiatrist at the Naval Medical Research Institute and the National Naval Medical Center, both Bethesda, Maryland
- 1951
- Diplomat of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- 1953-1958
- Acting chief adult psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland
- 1957-1958
- Fellow of Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
- 1958-1960
- Psychiatrist at the Livermore Sanitarium, Livermore, California
- 1961
- Research associate on Aro Project at Abeo Kuta, Nigeria at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
- 1961-1962
- Psychiatrist at the Stanford Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California
- 1962-1964
- Medical director at the International Foundation for Advanced Study, Menlo Park, California
- 1964-1965
- Psychiatrist, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, California
- 1965
- Assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University
- 1965-1968
- Clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland
- Director of research at the Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
- 1967
- David C. Wilson Society Lecturer at University of Virginia
- 1968-1972
- Associate Director and Research Scientist at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland
- Clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland
- 1972
- Chief of psychiatric services and chief of Drug Treatment Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
- Associate Professor at the University of Maryland
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Savage, Charles. "Variation in Ego Feeling Induced by D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD-25)," The Psychoanalytic Review. Vol. 42, No. 1 (reprint), January 1955
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 3, Sub-Series 2, File 18, Item 11
Scope and Contents
Underlining and marginalia throughout.
Dates:
January 1955
Savage, Charles, Willis Harman, and James Fadiman. "Questionnaire Study of the Psychedelic Experience, Research Report No. 1," International Foundation for Advanced Study (photocopy), November 1, 1962
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 3, Sub-Series 2, File 18, Item 14
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes published and unpublished preprints, reprints, abstracts, and drafts of articles on the use of psychotropic substances as a therapeutic agent. It also includes book chapters, letters to the editor, and conference presentations.
Dates:
November 1, 1962
“The Experimental Use of Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy” by Walter N. Pahnke, Albert A. Kurland, Sanford Unger, Charles Savage, and Stanislav Grof (Reprint from the Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 212, Number 11), 1970
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 69, File 2, Item 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Sanford Unger papers (1961-1974; 0.2 cubic feet) contains writings exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances. The collection also contains the correspondence between Aldous and Laura Huxley and Sanford Unger, and an excerpt from the 1966 CBS Reports feature, “LSD The Spring Grove Experiment.”
Dates:
1970
"The Experimental Use of Psychedelic (LSD) Psychotherapy," International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, Therapy, and Toxicocology, Vol. 4, 1971
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, Item 51
Scope and Contents
Co-authored with Walter Pahnke, A.A. Kurland, Sanford Unger, and Charles Savage.
Dates:
1971
The R. M. Bucke Memorial Society for the Study of Religious Experience, Third Annual Conference with talks by Walter Pahnke and Charles Savage, 1967
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSP 72, File 5, Item 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Marlene Dobkin de Rios papers contains correspondence, biographical clippings, papers, conference materials, and article reprint request cards and documents de Rios' professional involvement with anthropological research on hallucinogens.
Dates:
1967
Unger, Sanford, Albert Kurland, John Shaffer, Charles Savage, Sidney Wolf, Robert Leighy, O. Lee McCabe, and Harry K. Shock. "Psychedelic Therapy," Prepared for the Third Conference on Research in Psychotherapy (photocopy of typed manuscript), June 1966
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 3, Sub-Series 2, File 20, Item 4
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes published and unpublished preprints, reprints, abstracts, and drafts of articles on the use of psychotropic substances as a therapeutic agent. It also includes book chapters, letters to the editor, and conference presentations.
Dates:
June 1966
Unger, Sanford, Albert Kurland, John W. Shaffer, Charles Savage, Sidney Wolf, Robert Leighy, O. Lee McCabe, and Harry Shock. "LSD-Type Drugs and Psychedelic Therapy," Research in Psychotherapy. Vol. 3 (reprint), 1968
Item — Box: 11, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 3, Sub-Series 2, File 20, Item 5
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes published and unpublished preprints, reprints, abstracts, and drafts of articles on the use of psychotropic substances as a therapeutic agent. It also includes book chapters, letters to the editor, and conference presentations.
Dates:
1968
Unger, Sanford et al. "On the Therapeutic Use of High-Dose LSD Sessions (Psychedelic Psychotherapy)." Rough Draft, undated
Item — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSP 70, Series 4, File 8, Item 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Contains manuscripts and undated manuscripts documenting Savage’s research, as well as miscellaneous manuscripts possibly created by Savage, his patients, or his colleagues. Materials are arranged chronologically when possible. Undated materials are arranged alphabetically by the author’s last name.
Dates:
undated