Background
Christ, Jacob was born on February 10, 1926 in Langenbruck, Baselland, Switzerland. Son of Anton Leonard and Anna Alice (Kambli) Christ.
Christ, Jacob was born on February 10, 1926 in Langenbruck, Baselland, Switzerland. Son of Anton Leonard and Anna Alice (Kambli) Christ.
Doctor of Medicine, Lausanne University, Switzerland, 1951. Doctor of Medicine, Amsterdam University, Netherlands, 1952. Doctor of Medicine (Thesis), University Zürich (Switzerland), 1952.
Intern, U. Amsterdam Hospitals, 1949-1952; resident, Medical College Virginia, Richmond, 1952-1953; resident, New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, 1953-1954; resident, Yale Psychiatric Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, 1954-1955; assistant instructor, clinical associate psychiatrist, Harvard University Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, 1956-1970; associate professor, Emory University Medical School, Atlanta, 1970-1979; consultant staff, Northside Community Mental Health Center, Atlanta, 1973-1979; psychiatrist in chief, External Psychiatric Superior vena cava syndrome of Canton Baselland, Liestal, Switzerlnad, 1979-1991; private practice psychiatry, Basel, Switzerland, since 1991. Visiting instructor Medical University of South Carolina., Charleston, 1970-1977. Instructor School for Social Work, Basel, since 1979.
Lieutenant United States Navy, 1955-1957. Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American Group Psychotherapy Association.
Married Cornelia A. van der Horst, September 30, 1950 (deceased May 1952). 1 child, Frans; married Barbara R. Fierke, September 15, 1956 (deceased November 1968). Children: Charlotte, Martin, Catherine.
Married Jane Lippincott Smith, January 6, 1979. Children: Heidi, Jonathan.