Henry Edwards Payson

Background

Payson, Henry Edwards was born on May 12, 1925 in New York City. Son of Aurin Eliot and Lois Elizabeth (Chickering) Payson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Harvard College, 1948; Doctor of Medicine Columbia University, 1952; M.S.L., Yale University Law School, 1978; A.M. (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1981.

Career

Research fellow in medicine, Columbia University unit Goldwater Memorial Hospital, 1952-1953; intern, Osler Clinic, Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1953-1954; resident in psychiatry, Phipps Clinic, 1955-1958; resident in internal medicine, Duke U. Hospital, 1954-1955; assistant professor psychiatry and medicine, Yale University School Medicine also attending physician, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, 1958-1963; assistant professor psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School, 1963-1968; associate professor, Dartmouth Medical School, 1968-1978; professor, Dartmouth Medical School, 1978-1990; professor emeritus, Dartmouth Medical School, since 1990; chief forensic psychiatry, department psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School. Attending psychiatrist Hitchcock Clinic, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, 1972-1990. Chief in-patient service Dartmouth-Hitchcock Mental Health Center, 1969-1971.

Consultant Veterans Administration Hospital., White River Junction, Vermont, 1972-1991, N.H. Hospital, 1980-1987, Veterans Administration Hospital., Manchester, N.H., 1981-1991, N.H. Prison, 1984-1988, Cottage Hospital, Woodsville, N.H., since 1990. Director DisturbedOffender Project of N.H., 1972-1973.

Achievements

• Henry Edwards Payson has been listed as a noteworthy Forensic psychiatrist, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member N.H. Guardian Advisory Council, 1979-1983. Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Fellow American Psychiatric Association (life).

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Psychiatry and Law, N.H. Psychiatric Society (president 1977-1978).

Connections

Married Barbara Louise Jarvis, March 29, 1958. Children: Ann Elizabeth, John Eliot, Sally Lynn, Susan Gail.

Father:

Aurin Eliot Payson

Mother:

Lois Elizabeth (Chickering) Payson

Spouse:

Barbara Louise Jarvis

child:

Susan Gail Payson

child:

John Eliot Payson

child:

Sally Lynn Payson

child:

Ann Elizabeth Payson