Background
WHITE, William Alanson was born on January 24, 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Alanson and Harriet Augusta (Hawley) White.
WHITE, William Alanson was born on January 24, 1870 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Alanson and Harriet Augusta (Hawley) White.
Student Cornell, 1885-1889. Doctor of Medicine Long Island Medical College, 1891. A.M. (honorary), Georgetown University, 1925.
Doctor of Science, Washington University, 1932.
Binghamton (New York) Eastern State Hospital, 1892-1903. Superintendent St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Washington, since 1903. Professor psychiatry, George Washington University, since 1904.
Lecturer insanity, United States Naval and Army Medical School.
Editor and Translator: (with Doctor Smith E. Jelliffe) The Psychic Treatment of Nervous Disorders, 1905. Editor: (with Doctor Jelliffe) Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series. (with same) Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases (2 vols.), and the Psychoanalytic Review (quarterly).
Author: Outlines of Psychiatry (1929). Lectures in Psychiatry (1928). Introduction to Study of Mind (1924). Mental Mechanisms (1911). Essays in Psychopathology. Insanity and the Criminal Law. Mental Hygiene of Childhood. A Psychiatrists View of War and After. The Meaning of Disease. Text Book on Nervous and Mental Diseases (co-author).
Member, National Research Council. Member of American Medical Association. Member National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Federal Board Hospitalization.
American Psychiatric Association (past president). American Neurological Association. American Psychoanalytic Association.
International Congress on Mental Hygiene (first president). Administrative Board, Child Guidance Institute, New York. National Committee for Mental Hygiene (member, Board Directors, Board Trustees).
Federation Board Hospitalization. Alpha Omega Alpha; Phi Chi. Institute, of Justice.
American Institute Criminal Law and Criminology. American Academy Sciences. American Anthropological Society.
White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. Clubs: National Press, Chevy Chase, Cosmos.
Spouse Lola Thurston, February 21, 1918, Washington, D.C.