Person
William Alanson White
American psychiatrist who directed the Government Hospital for the Insane, later St Elizabeths Hospital, in Washington from 1903 to 1937. He was among the first American psychiatrists to champion psychoanalysis, co-founding the Psychoanalytic Review with Smith Ely Jelliffe in 1913, and he was Harry Stack Sullivan's mentor; the foundation and lectures Sullivan's circle established in Washington bear his name.
Influence
Affinity
- influenced Harry Stack Sullivan
Sullivan worked under White at St Elizabeths Hospital in the early 1920s and regarded him as his chief mentor; the 1939 lectures that became Conceptions of Modern Psychiatry were the first William Alanson White Memorial Lectures.
References
- Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan1982Evidence for a relation