John T. MacCurdy

John Thompson MacCurdy or John Thomson MacCurdy (1886 – 1947) was a Canadian psychiatrist.^[1] 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.^[2]

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

References

1. Banister, H.; Zangwill, O. L. (1949). "John Thomson MacCurdy, 1886–1947". British Journal of Psychology. General Section. 40: 1–4. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8295.1949.tb00223.x.
2. Falzeder, Ernst; Brabant, Eva, eds. (2000). The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi, 1920-1933. Harvard University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-674-00297-5.