Greenacre, Phyllis

Biographical Note

• 1894, May 3: Born, Chicago, Ill.
• 1913: B.S., University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• 1916: M.D., Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.
• 1917 - 1928 : Faculty member, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Md.
• 1919: Married Curt Paul Richter (divorced 1930)
• 1925 - 1926 : Assistant psychiatrist, New Jersey State Hospital, Trenton, N.J.
• 1927 - 1932 : Consulting psychiatrist, Child Care Division, Department of Public Welfare, Westchester County, N.Y.
• 1933: Began personal analysis
• 1933 - 1959 : Attending psychiatrist, New York Hospital, New York, N.Y.
• 1934 - 1965 : Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Cornell Medical College, Ithaca, N.Y.
• 1937: Completed psychoanalytic training, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
• 1942: Became a training analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
• 1945: Joined editorial board, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child
• 1946: Established private psychoanalytic and psychiatric practice, New York, N.Y.
• 1948 - 1950 : President, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
• 1951 - 1967 : Member, American Psychological Association
• 1952: Published Trauma, Growth and Personality. New York: Norton
• 1953: Delivered Freud Anniversary Lecture, New York Psychoanalytic Institute, New York, N.Y.
• 1955: Published Swift and Carroll. New York: International Universities Press
• 1956 - 1957 : President, New York Psychoanalytic Society, New York, N.Y.
• 1965 - 1967 : President, International Psychoanalytic Association
• 1971: Published Emotional Growth. New York: International Universities Press
• 1989, Oct. 24: Died, Ossining, N.Y.

From the guide to the Phyllis Greenacre Papers, 1903-1999, (bulk 1955-1985), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)