Prince, Morton, 1854-1929

Prince (Harvard, M.D. 1879) was clinical instructor in diseases of the nervous system at Harvard Medical School from 1895 to 1898 and associate professor of abnormal and dynamic psychology at Harvard College from 1926 to 1928. He studied in Vienna and Strasbourg following graduation from medical school and on beginning practice in Boston was first associated with the Boston Dispensary (1882-1886), then with Boston City Hospital's Neurological Department (1885-1913). He was professor of nervous diseases at Tufts College Medical School from 1902 to 1912. He established the Harvard Psychological Laboratory and wrote extensively on psychopathology; his book, the Dissociation of Personality (published 1906) was one of the first studies of multiple personality and was based on his own clinical work.