Background
Avery Danto Weisman was born on December 13, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Alec and Sadie Belle (Danto) Weisman.
University of Michigan
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Montefiore Hospital
Wayne County General Hospital
Boston City Hospital
25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Harvard Medical School
University of Michigan
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
Montefiore Hospital
Wayne County General Hospital
Boston City Hospital
25 Shattuck St, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Harvard Medical School
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Avery Danto Weisman was born on December 13, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He was the son of Alec and Sadie Belle (Danto) Weisman.
Weisman graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1935. The next year he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from it. He then received his doctorate from the university in 1940 and also graduated from Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in 1953.
Weisman started his career from the internship at Montefiore Hospital in Pittsburgh in 1940. The next year he became a resident in Neurology Wayne County General in Eloise, Michigan, 1941. In 1942, he went to Neuropath and Neurology Boston City Hospital, where he held the position of chief resident till 1944.
That year, Weisman started his long relationships with Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He first worked there as a resident in psychiatry and his last position was the former Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation Service.
Weisman also taught at Medical School Harvard University since 1944 and was a distinguished visiting professor at Northwestern University Medical School from 1986 till 1990.
After his retirement in 1997, Weisman held the position of Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and former Chief of the Psychiatric Consultation Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Weisman's ground-breaking clinical research and teaching in the fields of psychosomatic medicine and psycho-oncology forged a path for scores of clinicians and investigators. He is best known for his work in the field of psychiatric study of cancer, which includes such books as The Existential Core of Psychoanalysis: Reality Sense and Responsibility, The Psychological Autopsy: A Study of the Terminal Phase of Life, On Dying and Denying: A Psychiatric Study of Terminality, The Realization of Death: A Guide for the Psychological Autopsy, The Coping Capacity: On the Nature of Being Mortal, and Coping with Cancer.
Avery Weisman Award and Lectureship were established in his honour by Foundation of Thanatology in 1988.
Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service was named in his honour by Massachusetts General Hospital in 1992.
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Weisman was a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association, American Academy of Neurology, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychosomatic Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Association of Suicidology.
Weisman married Erma Carman, who deceased in 1982, on December 30, 1950. He then married Lois London on July 8, 1988. During his life, Weisman had no children.
