Background
Thetford, William Newton was born on April 25, 1923 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of John Randolph and Edna Mabel (Klein) Thetford.
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William Newton Thetford
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AB, DePauw University, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1949. Postgraduate, Washington School Psychiatry, 1951—1954.
Career
Research psychologist Institute Psychosomatic & Psychiatric Research & Training, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1949—1951. Senior psychologist United States Government, Washington, 1951—1954. Consultant Foreign Service Institute, Beirut, 1953.
Director division clinical psychology Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1954—1955. Assistant professor psychology, chief psychologist human ecology study program Cornell University Medical College, 1955—1957, consultant division human ecology department medicine, 1960. Associate professor medical psychology Columbia College Physicians & Surgeons, 1958—1971, assistant project director child development program, 1960—1968, professor, since 1971.
Director division clinical psychology Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1958—1978. Principal investigator learning behavior and personality traits Human Ecology Fund, since 1960. Consultant National Institutes of Health.
Associate editor Journal Abnormal Psychology.
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Fellow: American Psychological Association. Member: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Inter-American Psychological Association, International Congress Psychology, New York Academy of Sciences, Committee Orthopsychiatry Pediatrics Settings, New York Society Projective Techniques, Association American Medical Colleges, World Federation Mental Health, American Federation Clinical Research, American Psychosomatic Society, International Council Psychologists, American Orthopsychiat. Association, Society Projective Techniques, Sigma Xi.
