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James F. Masterson
James F. Masterson | |
|---|---|
| Born | ()March 25, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 12, () (aged84) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Almamater | University of Notre Dame Thomas Jefferson University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
James F.
Masterson (March 25, —April 12, ) was a prominent American psychiatrist.
He was an internationally recognized psychiatrist who helped inaugurate the study and treatment of personality disorder including borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.
He died April 12, , of pneumonia at the age of eighty-four.
Life
Masterson was born March 25, , in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame were interrupted by Army service in World War II.
After the war, he earned a medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He was long associated with the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York, serving as the