Morgan, Christiana

Christiana Drummond Morgan (CDM), a lay psychoanalyst at the Harvard Psychological Unit, was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 October 1897, the daughter of Isabella Coolidge and William Thomas Councilman, a professor of pathology at the Harvard Medical School. She attended the Winsor School in Boston from 1908 to 1914, and then attended Farmington, a finishing school for girls, for one year. In the spring of 1917 she met William Morgan (WM), a Harvard University student and one of the first of the class of 1918 to enlist in the US armed forces. Before WM left for duty in September of 1917, the two were engaged to be married.

While WM served in the war, CDM enrolled in a nurse’s aid course in New York City. After finishing the course, CDM went home to care for her sick father and began volunteering at a hospital in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, the Red Cross drafted CDM for emergency duty. CDM was assigned to hospitals in Methuen, Massachusetts and worked for Colonel Brooks, the Head of the Medical Department of the Massachusetts State Guard.

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