Background
Coodley, Alfred Edgar was born on April 25, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Oscar and Rae (Korot) Coodley.
Coodley, Alfred Edgar was born on April 25, 1922 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Oscar and Rae (Korot) Coodley.
Student, University of California at Los Angeles, 1937-1940; Bachelor, University of California, Berkeley, 1941; Doctor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1943; Doctor of Philosophy, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1955.
Intern, Los Angeles County General Hospital, 1943-1944; intern, School Military Neuropsychiatry & Electroencephalogram Mason General Hospital, Long Island, New York, 1944-1945; resident psychiatry, Hammond General Hospital, Modesto, 1945-1946; chief department neurology, assistant department chairman neuropsychiatry, Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, 1946-1947; senior resident and United States Public Health Service fellow in psychiatry, Cincinnati General Hospital, 1947-1949; clinical associate, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Beverly Hills, 1950-1955; private practice psychiatry, Los Angeles, since 1949; associate clinical professor psychiatry, Loma Linda (California) School Medicine, 1949-1961; associate clinical professor psychiatry, University of California at Los Angeles School Medicine, since 1962; training and supervising analyst, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, Beverly Hills, since 1972; clinical professor emeritus of psychiatry, University of Southern California, 1977-1985. Psychiatric consultant United States Public Health Service, Los Angeles, 1949-1968, Los Angeles County Juvenile Hall, 1949-1971, Psychiatric Section Los Angeles County Superior Court, 1950-1957, Criminal division, since 1971, State of California Parole Clinic, 1962-1992,Allergy Clinic University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1962-1982, Family Medical Department University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, 1982-1985, Forensic In & Out-Patient Mental Health Center Jail, LosAngeles County, 1979-1989.
Member Los Angeles World Affairs Council, since 1960, Los Angeles Town Hall, since 1980. Served to major Medical corpus, United States army, 1944-1947. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life), American Orthopsychiat.
Association (life), American Association for Social Psychiatry. Member American Psychoanalytic Association (executive councilor 1970-1978), American Psychosomatic Society, Southern California Psychoanalytic Society (president 1968-1969), Southern California Psychiatric Society (executive councilor 1962-1965, treasurer 1965-1966), Southern California Psychotherapy Affiliation (president 1977-1982), Los Angeles County Medical Association (president section psychiatry 1988-1990), American Academy Psychiatry and Law, Academy Psychosomatic Medicine, Phi Delta Epsilon Graduate Club (historian since 1986).
Married Gloria May Drexler, February 9, 1947 (divorced 1975). Children: Roger Stuart, Mitchell Ross. Married Inga Charlotte Steinberg, November 1983.