Gustav Eckstein (psychologist)

Eckstein was born on 26 October 1890 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.^[1] Some of his books included

• In Peace Japan Breeds War (1927)
• Noguchi (1931) - a biography on Hideyo Noguchi - Japanese-American microbiologist
• Lives (1932)
• Kettle (1933)
• Everyday Miracle (1934)
• Hokusai (1935)
• Canary (1936)
• Christmas Eve (1938)
• Friends of Mine (containing Lives and Canary) (1942)
• The Pet Shop (1944) and
• The Body Has a Head (1969), a best-seller.

He died in 1981.^[2]

The character of Prof. Metz in Kaufman and Hart's 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner is based on Eckstein, only with cockroaches in the place of canaries.^{[citation needed]}

In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Phil Connors, the character played by Bill Murray, is seen reading the book The Body Has a Head. The book can also be seen laying on the psychotherapist’s (played by Robin Williams) coffee table in the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting.