UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TELEPHONE! DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS ANN ARBOR, NORMANDY 3-1511 1133 E. CATHERINE STREET EXTENSION 2176 Yooh This portion of the letter I did not wish, for obvious reascns, to dictate to my secretary, I am not reaily looking for a gob, am in general satisfied with my present situation, and have been uninterested in several more or less concrete opportunities that have lately come up. ilowever, like anyone else, I am always at least latently interested in an oppor- tunity where my work can proceed more effectively. Your letter has had the effect of causing me to examine, where I had tended to ignore or deny, the deficiencies in my present setup, Clinically, there is nrobably no better piace in the country for chiid psychiatry than llawthorn Center, Rabinovitch is an outstanding man, a wonderful teacher, and has develcned an excellent organization. Moreover, I feel a very strong versonal loyalty to him, and this, more than anything else, deters me from considering leaving here, But the cpportunities for research, at least the kinds of research in wiict I am most capable, are limited, both by nhysical and geogranhical factors and by the overall orientation of the institution, Much of this difficulty can be imroved, but the thing that is, at nresent, most discouraging is that the State does not appear to be inclined toward any capital outlay in the near future, and, while we can get grants, we simnly do not have the physical space to exnand our research facilities. So I am potentially interested in the Stanford develonoment. At least I would like to know more about it. Attached is an outline summary of my training and experience. To caarify a little my own particuiar qualifications and usefulness for a department of nosychiatry, it should be stated that I am probably not an administrator and most definitely not a politician, If I have any real forte, it is probably an ability to relate with, interview, and diagnose disturbed children; plus a more-than-passing awareness of the methods and trends in the fields of neurophysiology and biochemistry, I am not especially articulate, contribute little in large group situations, and express things best in writing. JI always get along well perscnally with associates and sub- ordinates, but have enough difficulty in handiing my feelings toward my suneriors tha$ I tend to avoid them (except Rabinovitch). I always look both ways before crcssing the street, and am obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and irreverent, To leave Hawthorne would certainly not be very nossible for at least a year. J am well into the middle of a project on tryptophane metabolism is schizophrenic children, and having spent most of the past twc years in doing the spadework, am just beginning to reap the data. Nc thing positive may come of it, but it's my project and I want to be arcund for the fun, We just started last week on cur first family; I'm more interested in possible genetic findings than actual aberrations ir the disease itself, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN TELEPHONE: DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN GENETICS ANN ARBOR, NORMANDY 3-1511 1133 E. CATHERINE STREET EXTENSION 2176 I haven't nublished a thing since entering psychiatry 5 years ago, but have two navers nartiaily com:leted, one on the use of humor in child psy- chiatry ( a widely used and vastly misunderstood mechanism) and another on the state hosnital milieu in treatment of children, For the latter study I have been seeing kids in a state hosnital about three days a month fcr two years, J am also heading a drug-evaluation study cn disturbed children, and a psychiatric study of the families of schizophrenic children, However, what I am most interested in doing, and which is not very feasible in this setting is a project which I expressed somewhat facetiously tc you in the previcus letter: the inheritance of nersonality. I see this as a long-range study, starting with newborns, measuring multiple factors of nhysical, chemi- cal, psychological, and physiological variation (something on the order of Roger Williams' notion of biochemical indiviauality) and then fcllowing these factors as they interact with environment in the growing and develoning child, Julius Richmond at Syracuse has some such a study going, and I hore to visit him soon to see what he's doing. The pediatrics department at Lenver has some long-term data on children, but I gather that they have limited their measure- ments mainly to physical and chemical factors, and have given little attention to psychological and cuitural aspects, Let me know if anything turns up, It is nerhaps surerfluous to advise you that the information contained herein is strictly ccnfidential, and is known only to you and my analyst. ilow much do vou charge per hour?