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Dr. Joseph Jules Michaels, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School died of a heart attack Saturday at his home in Belmont. He was 64 years old.
Dr. Michaels wrote over 90 books and articles dealing with his special field which was the cause of deliquency and impulse character disorders.
He was appointed an instructor in 1936, a year later he was named a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. During World War II, he was a major in the Medical Corps and was chief of neuropsychiatric service at the Newton D. Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg, W. Va. He was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service.
In addition to instructing at the Medical School, Dr. Michaels was a visiting psychiatrist at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was also engaged in private practice.
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