About
Smiley Blanton, born in 1882 in Tennessee, was a pioneer in speech pathology and psychiatry in the United States. After studying at Vanderbilt and Cornell, he directed a psychiatric ward during World War I. He founded the first university speech clinic at the University of Wisconsin and taught at several institutions. He underwent personal psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna. With Norman Vincent Peale, he co-founded the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry and wrote works blending faith and psychology. He also published books on love, poetry, and the prevention of nuclear war.
Major works
- Speech Training for Children (1919)speech pathology book
- Child Guidance (1927)psychology book
- Faith Is the Answer (1940)self-help book
- Love or Perish (1956)essay
- Diary of My Analysis with Freud (1971)memoir
Key milestones
- 1914Earned his M.D. from Cornell University.
- 1929Underwent personal psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna.
- 1951Co-founded the American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry with Norman Vincent Peale.
Themes
Speech pathologyPsychoanalysisReligion and psychiatryChild developmentLove and human relationships
Sources: ubwp.buffalo.edu · onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu