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John Thompson MacCurdy

1886 – 1947

Canadian psychiatrist and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association

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Lived 1886 – 1947 (aged 60–61). John Thompson MacCurdy was a psychiatrist and physician.

John Thompson MacCurdy or John Thomson MacCurdy (1886 – 1947) was a Canadian psychiatrist. He was the co-founder and first secretary of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He taught at Cornell University from 1913 to 1922, and in 1923 became a lecturer in psychopathology at Cambridge University.

Works The psychology of war, 1917. With a preface by W. H. R. Rivers War neuroses, 1918 (ed.) Benign stupors: a study of a new manic-depressive reaction type by August Hoch Problems in dynamic psychology: a critique of psychoanalysis and suggested formulations, 1922 The structure of emotion, mobid and normal, 1925 Common principles in psychology and physiology, 1928 Mind and money: a psychologist looks at the crisis, 1932 The structure of morale, 1943 Germany, Russia and the future, 1944. Current Problems No. 23. Translated into French as L'Allemagne, la Russie le l'avenir: essai psycholoique, 1944

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Born
1886
Birth century
Died
1947
Employers
Cornell University, University of Cambridge

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Who was John Thompson MacCurdy?

Canadian psychiatrist and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association

When was John Thompson MacCurdy born?

John Thompson MacCurdy was born in 1886.

When did John Thompson MacCurdy die?

John Thompson MacCurdy died in 1947.

What was John Thompson MacCurdy's occupation?

John Thompson MacCurdy was a psychiatrist and physician.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: John Thompson MacCurdy

· Wikidata: Q19818480

· DBpedia: John T. MacCurdy

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