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For other uses, see William Sadler (disambiguation).  William Samuel Sadler FAPA (1875 - 1969) was a well-known American psychiatrist[1] and professor at McCormick Theological Seminary. For over sixty years he practiced medicine in Chicago, thirty-three years being associated in practice with his wife, Lena Kellogg.
[edit] EducationThe Sadlers married in 1897 and together pursued their medical degrees at the American Medical Missionary College (University of Illinois) where they equally graduated with honors in 1906. They founded the Chicago Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics (later called the Chicago Institute of Research & Diagnosis). [edit] Professional backgroundSadler was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for over twenty-five years, a professor and chairman of the department of pastoral psychology at McCormick Theological Seminary. He held memberships in the following associations: Life Fellow, American College of Surgeons; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow, American Medical Association; Fellow, American Psychiatric Association; Member, American Psychopathological Association; Member Illinois Psychiatric Association; Member; Chicago Society for Personality Study; Member, Chicago Medical Society; Member, Illinois State Medical Society; Board member, W. K. Kellogg Foundation; National Association of Authors and Journalists; founder member and governing board, Gorgas Memorial Institute in Tropical and Preventive Medicine. He was a professor at the Post-Graduate Medical School of Chicago, director of the Chicago Institute of Research and Diagnosis, consulting psychiatrist at Columbus Hospital, and for thirty years, a lecturer in Pastoral Counseling at McCormick Theological Seminary. As a pioneer he interested ministers in improving their work of personal counseling through profiting by the experience of psychiatric practice. Sadler was a humorous orator and was a member of the Eugene Field Society, the National Association of Authors and Journalists, and International Mark Twain Society. He was a fantastic story teller and could take the roof off a building with laughter when he got going. As was common practice for those associated with the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the Sadlers were speakers for the Chautauqua assemblies, introducing the modern concepts of mental medicine and physical hygiene for the prevention of disease. For many years, at the Chicago Institute, Sadler taught clinics for physicians, ministers, and laity that covered the entire field of mental medicine that he liked to term "personology." Writing more than 42 books and numerous magazine articles, he authored such works as: Theory and Practice of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Nursing, The Mind at Mischief, Growing Out of Babyhood, Piloting Modern Youth, and The Quest for Happiness. Sadler did not adhere to purely mechanistic or materialistic views of psychology and psychiatry and was a consistent advocate of broad and rational principles of psychiatry; he was among early American psychiatrists who placed an emphasis upon the importance of the preventive aspects of mental hygiene.[2] [edit] FamilyThe Sadlers' first son, Willis, was born in 1899 but died as an infant. Their second son, William Samuel Sadler Jr., was born in 1907. In 1923, Emma L. Christensen, 33 years of age, was accepted as a member of the Sadler family. [edit] HistoryWilliam Sadler was born in Spencer, Indiana, son of Samuel Calvins Sadler and Dr Sarah Isabel Wilson, MD on June 24, 1875. Upon moving to Battle Creek Michigan, he was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. At age 14, he worked as a bellboy and later a salesman for the Battle Creek Sanitarium. In 1895 he began to instruct Christian doctrine, preach the gospel, and serve as an administrator for the San Francisco and Chicago Medical Mission and Benevolent Societies. In addition he was an editor, author, and founder of Life Boat Magazine. In 1897 Sadler married Lena Kellogg. By 1989, the Chicago Medical Mission had grown to comprise of eight institutions and twenty-five distinct lines of mission and rescue work. William became an ordained minister and he and Dr Lena worked for twenty years in rescue ministry. The Sadlers went into private practice when the institutions of the Chicago Medical Missions began to dissolve caused by internal conflicts between the founder of the mission, John Harvey Kellogg and the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In addition to private practice they also gave lectures for community organizations on a regular basis. For the rest of their lives the Sadlers were associated with the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Sadler was a humorous orator and member of the Eugene Field Society, the National Association of Authors and Journalists, and the International Mark Twain Society. "He was a fantastic story teller and could take the roof off a building with laughter when he got going." He was a cheerful man. "Patients suffering from depression would come into his office with their chins on their chests. After listening to his inspirational exhortation for an hour they left his office walking on air. Dr Sadler would amble out of his office with a twinkle in his eye and a pleasant expression on his cherubic face." [edit] DebunkerSadler was a well-known skeptic of psychic phenomena and devoted a substantial amount of his time to exposing the proponents of the paranormal as frauds and charlatans and writing numerous books on the topic. He worked with magician Howard Thurston in exposing frauds and mediums. He was considered one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject and held the life-long opinion that all psychic phenomena was explainable within the confines of the laws of nature. [edit] DeathDr. William S. Sadler died on April 26, 1969, at 93 years of age. [edit] The Urantia BookIn 1923 a group of interested persons said that the contents of The Urantia Book materialized[3] from 1924 until 1936. Sadler wrote a paper detailing the types of methods that he said were not used in the reception of the papers.[4] "How We Did Not Get The Urantia Book" and Psychic Phenomena: Unusual Activities of the Marginal Consciousness (The Subconscious Mind).[5] William S Sadler was a participant among another 486 interested persons. He was not the founder of The Urantia Book movement, he just lived longer than most becoming an elder statesman. He and his wife were an exemplary team, medical doctors, working side by side as partners in business as well as spiritual interests. He did not serve as a trustee of the Urantia Foundation [6] formed in 1950, and was never an officer of the Urantia Brotherhood. He was Chair of the Committee on Education and he worked, with his committee, after the book's publication to produce curriculum materials for the Urantia Brotherhood School. The titles were, Urantia Doctrine and the Theology of the Urantia Book, Urantia Book Quotations from the Teachings, Sayings, Miracles, and Parables of Jesus, Worship and Wisdom, Gems from the Urantia Book, History of the Urantia Movement, Study of the Books of the Bible, The History of the Bible, A Short Course in Doctrine, Analytical Study of the Urantia Book, Science in the Urantia Book, and Topical Studies in the Urantia Book. [edit] Notes
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