Beck, Aaron T.

Aaron Temkin Beck was born July 18, 1921 in Providence Rhode Island. He entered Brown University in 1938 and graduated with B.A. in 1942. He went on to Yale University for his medical education and obtained his M.D. in 1946.

Beck served a rotating internship and a residency in pathology at the Rhode Island Hospital from 1946 to 1948, had a residency in neurology and later in psychiatry at the Cushing Veterans Administration Hospital in Framingham, Massachusetts, from 1948 to 1950, and served as a Fellow in psychiatry at the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, from 1950 to 1952. He was in military service from 1952 to 1954, serving as Assistant Chief of the Department of Neuro-Psychiatry at the Valley Forge Army Hospital, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He was certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in 1953.

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