Isador H. Coriat

Isador Henry Coriat (December 10, 1875 - May 26, 1943) was an American psychiatrist and neuropathologist of Moroccan origin. He was one of the first American psychoanalysts. He was born in Philadelphia in 1875 as the son of Hiram Coriat and Clara Einstein. He was of paternal Moroccan descent and maternal German. He grew up in Boston and studied at Tufts Medical School, which he graduated in 1900. He was one of the founders of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society, the first secretary in 1914 and the president in 1930-32. Koryat was the only Freudian analyst in Boston since the death of James Jackson Putnam. Coriat worked with Rev. Elwood Worcester, served as a medical expert for the Emmanuel movement, and was a co-author of religion and medicine; Moral control of nervous disorders. Koryat married Etta Dunn in 1910. He died on May 26, 1943 after a short illness.