• Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at the University of Vermont from 1888-89
• Clinical Professor of Psychiatry from 1904-8
• First Professor of Psychiatry from 1908-14 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University
• Comments on the value of current treatment of mental disease in his poetry:
• Hypnotism -
  • "Come nearer, let me see your face, for just a moment's space; bend close with those tranquil eyes, mysterious, wonder-wise. Then let your words of magic art, like music seek my heart---"sleep long-sleep well, what'er befall, until you hear me call!". Then shall sweet visions take control, of my blest, happy soul; now what if thus-unmoved by fears - I sleep a hundred years! What matter if they bury me, deep down in earth or sea!
    I must awaken and rejoice, when next I hear your voice."

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