Dates: January 30, 1886 - April 1981.
Mentioned in the 1952-11-06-05 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “The Secretary read a letter from Charles Maylan, Ph.D., requesting permission to appear before the Board of Directors to present his psychological approach to troubled minds.”
PhD.[?]; psychologist[?].
Previous name: Emil Adolf Charles Layman. ["Adolf" sometimes appears as "Adolph." "Maylan" an anagram of "Layman."]. Father: Frederick Oppenheim Layman of San Francisco's Telegraph Hill "Layman's Folly" fame.
Layman, Emil Adolf Charles [g 1909-. Student] Care of Bankier W. Basse, Georgstr. 34, Hannover, Germany.
Source: Harvard University Directory. Harvard Alumni Association, 1910, pages 399 & 1260
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Layman, Emil Adolf Charles [g 1909-1910. Actor] Royal Theatre, Munich, Bavaria, Germany; Care W. Basse, Georgstr. 34, Hannover, Germany.
Source: Harvard University Directory. Harvard Alumni Association, 1914, pages 476 & 1618
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San Francisco Call, Volume 114, Number 73, August 12, 1913, page 3: Oakland Brevities. His mother's objection to the use of her son's name on the stage is the reason given by Emil Adolph Layman in a petition filed yesterday for a change of his name to Charles Emil Maylan. Layman's mother, Lily May Layman, and his sister, Mary Helen, are residents of this county, now sojourning in Munich, Bararia. ...
Source: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130812.2.56#
Variety (0042-2738), Aug 22, 1913, page 26: [San Francisco] Soley because his mother is known in stageland as Lillie May Layman, her son, Emil Adolph Layman of Alameda, Cal., has petitioned the Superior Court in this city to grant him permission to legally change his name to Charles Adolph Maylan, it being apparent that he also has an equal aversion for that of "Emil."
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1930; 95: 1278: Foreign Letters. BERLIN. Sept. 29, 1930. The Annual Meeting of German Scientists and Physicians. ... After Bumke had described, in a few words, the attitude of various scientific investigators to Freud's theory, he mentioned the views of Thomas Mann, who has declared Freud's libido theory to be natural science in the form of romanticism and describes it as a manifestation of modern irrationalism. "Did Thomas Mann misunderstand Freud ; do the rest of us who oppose him fail to comprehend him, or is (which appears more likely) psychoanalysis itself full of contradictions?" Charles Maylan, an adherent of psychoanalysis, thinks Freud has been misunderstood. According to Maylan, psychoanalysis was an outgrowth of Freud's resentment. His hatred of his father and of the pope, who is identified with the father and who, at the same time, is the head of Christendom, and his dissatisfaction with scientific leaders, who withheld from him so long just recognition -- all these feelings have tinged Freud's pen. One need not accept Maylan's interpretation, and one may even regret, for reasons affecting humanity in general, that the book was ever written. But one must admit that psychoanalysis did not come into being in the manner that its adherents maintain -- by the application of an exact scientific method; by the establishment of incontrovertible facts and by a clear and intelligent study of such facts....
Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Freud's Moses: Judaism Terminable and Interminable, 1993, p. 58: The first attempt to psychoanalyze Freud through his own writings came in 1929 in a book published in Munich, entitled Freuds tragischer Komplex : eine Analyse der Psychoanalyse. ...details about its author, Charles Maylan, are hard to come by. I have been able to ascertain only that Maylan was born in Alameda, California, in 1886, and must at some point have settled permanently in Germany. In a commemorative history of the Ernst Reinhardt Verlag, Maylan's publishers, which appeared in 1974, a footnote describes him as a German-American (Deutschamerikaner) who wrote his book in German. This is followed by the cryptic remark that "evil tongues" (böse Zungen) alleged that he had originally been called Lehmann."
See also: Maylan, Charles E. Freuds tragischer Komplex : eine Analyse der Psychoanalyse. München : Reinhardt, 1929.