Background
Freeman, David Franklin was born on April 13, 1925 in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Son of Lemuel Elmer MacMillan and Katharine (Parker) Freeman.
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David Franklin Freeman
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Bachelor of Science, Wake Forest College, 1948; Doctor of Medicine, Bowman Gray School Medicine, 1951.
Career
Intern, Philadelphia General Hospital, 1951-1952;
resident in psychiatry, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1952-1955;
fellow child psychiatry, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1954-1955;
fellow child psychiatry, Worcester Youth Guidance Center, 1955-1956;
private practice, Lincoln, Massachusetts, 1956-1961;
private practice, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, since 1963;
director, North Control Mental Health Consultation Svc., Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1956-1957;
from staff psychiatrist to chief psychiatrist, Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children, Boston, 1957-1961;
staff psychiatrist, Walden Clinic, Concord, Massachusetts, 1958-1959;
director child psychiatry outpatient clinic, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, 1961-1963;
assistant professor psychiatry, U. North Carolina School Medicine, 1961-1963;
clinical assistant professor, U. North Carolina School Medicine, 1963-1966;
clinical associate professor, U. North Carolina School Medicine, 1966-1984;
clinical professor, U. North Carolina School Medicine, 1984-1994;
Adjunct Professor, U. North Carolina School Medicine, since 1994. Assistant director psychoanalytic education program U. North Carolina and Duke U., Chapel Hill, 1984-1992, director, 1992-1995, education committee, since 1973, chairman candidate progression committee, 1992. Chair board directors North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation, since 1995.
Consultant United States Army Hospital, Fort Devans, Massachusetts, 1957-1958, Waltham Family Svc.League, 1957-1958, Virginia Treatment Center for Children, Richmond, Virginia, 1964-1966, U. North Carolina School Medicine, Chapel Hill, 1966-1988. N.E. Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, 1959-1961. Lecturer and presenter in field.
Achievements
Membership
Study commission North Carolina Emotionally Disturbed Children, Chairman of Commission private practice, 1970-1971. Active Governor's Advisory Committee on Youth Development, 1972-1973. Sergeant United States Army, 1943-1946, France.
Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life, peer reviewer 1983-1987), North Carolina Psychiatric Association (life, committee member since 1963). Member American Academy Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (life), American Psychoanalytic Association (life, certified, delegate toexec. county 1977-1982, 84-88, alternate delegate to executive county 1982-1984, 88-97), Association for Child Psychoanalysis, International Pychoanalytic Association, North Carolina.Med. Society, North Carolina Council Child Psychiatry (founding member, president 1971-1972, Executive Committee 1973-1980), North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society (founding member, pres.1982-1984, Executive Committee since 1977), North Carolina Psychoanalytic Foundation (chair board directors since 1995), Orange County Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha, Gamma Sigma Epsilon.
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Married Constance Covell, March 28, 1953. Children: Julia Freeman-Woolpert, Martha Somers, David F. Junior.
