Oliver Spurgeon English (September 27, 1901 – October 3, 1993) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who taught at Temple University.^[1][2] He was also a founding member of the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Society in 1937, in addition to working at both the Philadelphia General Hospital and Temple University Hospital.^[3] With Edward Weiss, he co-authored an influential textbook on psychosomatic medicine in 1943, among the first books on the topic.^[3] His work in this area led the Associated Press to describe him as "one of the first psychotherapists to write about the connections between mental and physical health".^[4] His numerous other interested included the roles of fathers in child rearing, about which he authored the 1951 book Fathers Are Parents, Too.^[3][4]

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