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   Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the NIMH, president of the American   
   Psychiatric Assoc., clinical director of two correction institutions, military   
   psychiatrist, & research director of the Scottish Rite Psychophrenic Research   
   Program - Obituary   
      
   Obituaries   
   Dr. Robert H. Felix Is Dead at 85; Mental Health Unit's First Chief   
   By ALFONSO A. NARVAEZ   
   Published: April 03, 1990   
   Dr. Robert H. Felix, a psychiatrist who was the first director of the   
   National Institute of Mental Health, died of complications of   
   Parkinson's disease on Saturday at his home in Sun City, Ariz. He was   
   85 years old.   
   Dr. Felix, an authority on alcoholism and drug addiction, was also a   
   former dean of the medical school at St. Louis University, president   
   of the American Psychiatric Association in 1960-61 and a member of the   
   World Health Organization's advisory panel on mental health from 1952   
   to 1978.   
   Robert Hanna Felix was born on May 29, 1904, in Downs, Kan. He   
   graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School in 1930 and   
   completed his residency at the Colorado Psychopathic Hospital. He   
   earned a master of public health degree at Johns Hopkins University.   
   Prison Work, Then Military   
   Dr. Felix joined the Federal Public Health Service in 1933 as a   
   psychiatrist and later became clinical director of two correction   
   institutions, the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield,   
   Mo., and the Federal narcotics treatment center at Lexington, Ky.   
   In the early years of World War II he was a military psychiatrist and   
   senior health officer at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New   
   London, Conn.   
   He returned to the Public Health Service in 1944 as assistant chief of   
   the hospital division and was chief of the mental hygiene division   
   until 1949.   
   In that five-year period he helped develop the Mental Health Act of   
   1946, part of which created the National Institute of Mental Health,   
   one of the research institutes of the National Institutes of Health.   
   St. Louis University Post   
   He was appointed director of the mental health institute in 1949 and   
   held the post until he retired from government service in 1964.   
   After retiring, from Dr. Felix was a professor of psychiatry and dean   
   of the medical school at St. Louis University for 10 years, and from   
   1975 to 1985 he was research director of the Scottish Rite   
   Psychophrenic Research Program in Lexington, Mass. He moved to Arizona   
   in 1986.   
   Dr. Felix was given the Rockefeller Public Service Award in 1961 and   
   won awards for distinguished service of the American Public Health   
   Association and the American Psychiatric Association.   
   He was a member of numerous professional organizations and served on   
   the editorial boards of The Psychiatric Bulletin, The American Journal   
   of Psychiatry and The Quarterly Journal of Studies of Alcohol.   
   He is survived by his wife, Esther; a daughter, Katherine Hoenigman of   
   Berea, Ohio, and two grandchildren.   
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