Background
Ackerman, Nathan Ward was born on November 22, 1908 in Russia. Son of David and Bertha (Greenberg) Ackerman.
Ackerman, Nathan Ward was born on November 22, 1908 in Russia. Son of David and Bertha (Greenberg) Ackerman.
Came to the United States, 1912, naturalized, 1920. Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1929, Doctor of Medicine 1933.
He also was an expert in marriage counselling. Ackerman obtained his medical degree from Columbia University in 1933. He assumed the post of chief psychiatrist at the Menninger Child Guidance Clinic (see Menninger Foundation) in 1937.
In 1955, he contributed to the founding of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
In 1957 he founded the Family Mental Health Clinic in New York, and the Family Institute in 1960, which was later renamed the Ackerman Institute after his death in New York in 1971. In 1961 he co-founded the first ever family therapy journal Family Process with Donald deAvila Jackson and Jay Haley.
In 1929 he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, and in 1933 earned his Doctor of Medicine from the same university. After a short spell (1933-1934) as an intern at the Montefiore Hospital in New York, he interned at the Menninger Clinic and Sanitorium in Topeka, Kansas.
He joined their psychiatric staff in 1935.
Member psychiatric staff Menninger Clinic, 1936-1937. Fellow New York Academy of Medicine, American Psychiatric Association, American Orthopsychiat. Association, Academy Psychoanalysis, American Academy Child Psychiatry.
Member Association Psychoanalytic medicine (president 1957-1959), American Psychopath.
Association, Group for Advancement Psychiatry, New York Council Child Psychiatry, New York Society Clinical Psychiatry, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Group Therapy Association, Mexican Psychoanalytic Association (honorary), Association Applied Psychoanalysis (honorary).
Married Gwendolyn Hill, October 10, 1937. Children: Jeanne (Mistress Barry Curnan), Deborah.