James Jackson Putnam
James Jackson Putnam (October 3, 1846 – November 4, 1918) was an American
Biography
Born in
Putnam was a founder member of the American Neurological Association in December 1874,[2] and was its president in 1888, and also a founding member of the American Psychoanalytical Association in 1911, being its first president and continuing to hold the post the following year. He was appointed Professor of Diseases of the Nervous System at Harvard in 1893 and continued to his retirement in 1912.[3]
In 1900 he was one of the signatories of the “Protest of the Friends of the Present Management of the New York Pathological Institute” together with
Putnam has given his name to Putnam’s acroparaesthesia, a condition characterized by numbness, tingling, anaesthesia and discolouration of the hands on waking in the morning. Together with Charles L. Dana M.D. (1852–1935) he also described the Putnam-Dana syndrome which is a form of generalized subacute neurological degeneration caused by Vit.B12 deficiency.
In 1875–1876, Putnam,
Putnam lived in Cotuit, Massachusetts.[7]
Works
- Putnam, James J. Report on Electro-therapeutics (Containing Some Final Alterations). Boston, 1873.
- Putnam, James J., and George A. Waterman. Studies in Neurological Diagnosis. Boston: Ellis, 1902.[8]
- Putnam, James J. A Memoir of Dr. James Jackson, with Sketches of his Father, Hon. Jonathan Jackson, and his brothers, Robert, Henry, Charles, and Patrick Tracy Jackson; and some account of their ancestry. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1905.
- Putnam, James J. “Personal Impressions of Sigmund Freud: his work with special reference to his recent lectures at Clark University,” The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 46(6) (Feb.-March 1910): 372–379.
- Putnam, James J. On Some of the Broader Issues of the Psychoanalytic Movement. [Philadelphia?: s.n., 1914?]
- Putnam, James J. Human Motives. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1915.[9]
References
- ^ University, Harvard (1890). Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates of Harvard University. The University.
- ^ http://www.aneuroa.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3293 Archived April 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Founding of ANA
- ISBN 1-85070-333-7. pp 422–423.
- ^ http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/jap1010.htm Archived March 6, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Encyclopedia of the Self
- ^ http://www.psyplexus.com/tcts/1.htm Archived September 9, 2012, at archive.today Introduction to The Theory of Sex.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 1, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2016. Note: This includes Rachel D. Carley (January 2012). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Putnam Camp" (PDF). Retrieved February 1, 2016. and Accompanying photographs
- ^ Cotuit and Santuit - James Warren Gould, Jessica Rapp Grassetti - Google Books Retrieved 2017-05-03.
- ^ Putnam, James Jackson (1902). Studies in Neurological Diagnosis. Boston: GH Ellis.
- ^ Putnam, James Jackson (1915). Human Motives. Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Further reading
- Nathan G. Hale:
- James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters Between Putnam and Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, William James, Sandor Ferenczi, and Morton Prince, 1877–1917. Harvard University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-674-47170-9
- Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917 (Freud in America). Oxford University Press, 1971. ISBN 0-19-501427-8
- James Jackson Putnam and Psychoanalysis: Letters Between Putnam and Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, William James, Sandor Ferenczi, and Morton Prince, 1877–1917. Harvard University Press, 1971.