Finding Aid for the Robert Kellner Papers Biomed.1103
Finding aid prepared by Shira Peltzman, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 1 December 2020.
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Title: Robert Kellner papers
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.1103
Physical Description:
5.5 Linear Feet
(11 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1964-1993
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[Identification of item], Robert Kellner Papers (Collection 1103). Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of
California, Los Angeles.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
6315629
Administrative/Biographical History
Robert Kellner , M.D., Ph.D. (1922-1992) was born and raised in Czechoslovakia, received
his medical education in England, and spent his later years in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He
developed specific rating scales (Symptom Rating Test; Symptom Questionnaire; Brief
Depression Rating Scale; and Illness Attitude Scales) based on the psychometric property of
"sensitivity" (ability of a test to discriminate between the effects of two treatments).
Kellner's research and publiations included work on hypochondriasis; psychotherapeutic
strategies in psychophysiological disorders; and and the treatment of somatization and
abnormal illness behavior.
Documents related to the career of Robert Kellner, including manuscripts, correspondence
and research project files.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Publications and reprints, 1964-1993
- Series 2: Unpublished manuscripts, 1975-1992
- Series 3: Correspondence, 1987
- Series 4: Research project files, 1979-1981