Van Ophuijsen, who was described by Arthur Sackler as 'Freud's favorite disciple.' They had a friend and collaborator, director Johan H. All three brothers studied in Scotland, became psychiatrists, and joined the research staff at Creedmoor. He was said to be the first physician to use ultrasound as a diagnostic tool. Sackler collaborated on hundreds of papers based on neuroendocrinology, psychiatry, and experimental medicine. From 1949 to 1954, he was director of research at Creedmoor Institute for Psychobiological Studies. Sackler completed his residency in psychiatry at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. He also studied sculpture at the Educational Alliance and art history classes at Cooper Union. Sackler paid his tuition by working as a copywriter in 1942 at William Douglas McAdams, an ad agency specializing in medicine, a company that he would buy in 1947 and revolutionize. He attended New York University School of Medicine and graduated with an M.D. In The New Yorker, Patrick Radden Keefe called him a polymath for his varied interests. Sackler graduated from Erasmus Hall High School. Early life and education īorn in Brooklyn to Isaac and Sophie ( née Greenberg) Sackler, Jewish grocers who came to New York from Ukraine and Poland before World War I, Sackler was the eldest of three sons. On December 9, 2021, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City officially removed the Sackler family name from galleries which had been named after them. Many of the museums and galleries that Sackler donated to have distanced themselves from him and his family in the wake of the opioid crisis and the Sackler family's resulting reputational fall.

Since his death, Sackler's reputation has been tarnished due to his company Purdue Pharma's central role in the opioid crisis. Sackler's estate was estimated at $140 million.

He provided the funds needed to build numerous art galleries and schools of medicine. Sackler amassed the largest personal Chinese art collection in the world, which he donated to the Smithsonian. He was one of the three patriarchs of the controversial Sackler family pharmaceutical dynasty. He was also a philanthropist and art collector. Arthur Mitchell Sackler (Aug– May 26, 1987) was an American psychiatrist and marketer of pharmaceuticals whose fortune originated in medical advertising and trade publications.

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