Ernest Elvin Hadley

Ernest Elvin Hadley died suddenly and unexpectedly of a postoperative coronary accident in Washington, D. C., on August 10, 1954. This was but a few days before the official opening of the building which the Washington Psychoanalytic Society had acquired for its use and that of the Institute in the development of which Hadley had played so large a part. The Library in this building was appropriately named for Ernest Hadley and in it are housed his professional books and journals.

Ernest Hadley was born in Alton, Kansas, on August 2, 1894. He received his medical degree in 1920 from the University of Kansas Medical School, interned in the Walter Reed U.S. General Hospital, and was then a member of the psychiatric staff of St. Elizabeth's Hospital from 1921 to 1929. During the latter eight years he was in close and meaningful relationship with William Alanson White and Harry Stack Sullivan. The influence of these teachers upon his psychiatric development is apparent throughout his later career. During this time Hadley did considerable research in the therapeutic study of hebephrenic and paranoid patients. In this endeavor he revealed and developed his exceptionally benevolent attitude toward patients and his unusual talents for imaginative and constructive understanding of the unconscious of his fellow man. Here also he perfected his talents for communication of his ideas without conveying any suggestion of