Background

Schachter, Joseph was born on August 26, 1925 in New York City. Son of Jacob and May (Weisberg) Schachter.

Education

AB, Dartmouth College, 1946; Doctor of Medicine, New York University Bellevue, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1955.

Career

Research associate, College of Philisophy & S., Department of Psychiatry, New York City, 1956-1960; assistant clinical professor, College of Philisophy & S., Department of Psychiatry, New York City, 1960-1968; director post-doctoral research training, College of Philisophy & S., Department of Psychiatry, New York City, 1965-1968; chief psychiatric research in child development, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, 1967-1968; associate professor psychiatry, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1968-1976; research associate professor psychiatry, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, 1976-1979; clinical associate professor psychiatry, U. Pittsburgh School Medicine, since 1979; associate professor epidemiology, U. Pittsburgh Graduate School Health, 1979-1986; training and supervising psychoanalyst, Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute, since 1990.

Membership

With United States Navy, 1944-1945. Fellow American Psychiatric Association. Member American College Psychoanalysts, American Psychoanalytic Association (program committee).

Interests

• Avocations: travel, tennis, gardening, antiques.

Connections

Married Judith Spector, June 12, 1949. Children: Rachel Susan, Beth Ann, Daniel Eben.

Father:

Jacob Schachter

Mother:

May (Weisberg) Schachter

Spouse:

Judith Spector

child:

Beth Ann Schachter

child:

Rachel Susan Schachter

child:

Daniel Eben Schachter