William Thetford, Ph.D.
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Curriculum Vitae
Education:
A.B.,
DePauw University, 1944
Ph.D.,
University of Chicago, 1949
Post-Doctoral Training:
Institute
for Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Research and Training,
Michael
Reese Hospital, Chicago, 1949-1951
Washington School of Psychiatry, 1951-1954
Professional Experience:
Professor
of Medical Psychology, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia
University, 1971-1981
Associate
Professor of Medical Psychology, College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia
University, 1958-1971; Department of Psychology,
Columbia
University, 1966-1970
Director, Division of Psychology, Presbyterian Hospital, 1958 --
Assistant Project Director (Psychology), Study Program on the Pathogenesis of Cerebral Palsy, Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1959 - 1968
Senior
Psychological Consultant, Study Program in Human Ecology and the
Health of
Man,
Cornell University Medical College, 1962 - 1968
Special Consultant, U.S. Public Health Service (NINDB) 1961
Assistant
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University,
1955
- 1958
Chief Psychologist, Study Program in Human Ecology, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, 1955 - 1957
Director, Department of Psychology, Institute of Living, Hartford, Conn. 1954 - 1955
Senior Psychologist, U.S. Government, Washington, D.C. 1951 - 1954
Research
Consultant, Foreign Service Institute, State Department, at American
University,
Beirut, Lebanon, 1953
Research Psychologist, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Ill. 1949 -1951
Clinical Psychologist, Roosevelt College, Chicago, Ill. 1948 - 1949
Research Psychologist, Psychological Corporation, New York, N.Y. 1947
Research Assistant and Counselor, Counseling Center, University of Chicago, 1945 - 1946
Administrative
Office, University of Chicago, Metallurgical Laboratory,
(Atomic
Research Program), 1944 - 1945
Professional Societies:
Fellow,
American Orthopsychiatric Association
Fellow,
American Psychological Association
Fellow,
International Council of Psychologists
Fellow,
Society for Projective Techniques
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
American
Association on Mental Deficiency
American
Association of University Professors
American
Federation for Clinical Research
American
Psychosomatic Society
Association
of American Medical Colleges
Eastern
Psychological Association
Inter-American
Psychological Association
New York
Academy of Sciences
New York
Society for Projective Techniques
New York
State Psychological Association
Sigma
Xi
World
Federation for Mental Health
Other:
President,
New York Society for Projective Techniques, 1963 - 1966
Who's
Who in the East, 1960 --
American
Men of Science, 1956 --
Member,
Committee on Orthopsychiatry in Pediatric Settings, American Orthopsychiatric Association,
1963 - 1965
Member,
Columbia University Seminar on the Role of the Health Professions, 1961
--
Member,
Professional Standards Committee, ACCEPT (New York Council on Alcoholism), 1970
--
Certified
by the State Education Department, University of the State of New York
Research Grants:
Principal Investigator on following research grants awarded by Human Ecology Fund:
Investigations of the Personality Assessment System in Patients with Psychosomatic Symptoms (1960 - 1961)
Personality Assessment System and Learning Behavior (1961 - 1962)
Formulation of a Personality Theory (1961)
Learning Behavior and Personality Traits (1962 - 1963)
Prediction
of Overt Behavior by Means of the Personality Assessment System
(1963
- 1964)
Principal Investigator on following grant awarded by the Geschicter Foundation:
Prediction
of Overt Behavior by Means of the Personality Assessment System
(1965
- 1966)
Principal Investigator on following research contract awarded by Psychological Assessment Associates:
Brief Procedures for the Personality Assessment System Evaluation (1967 - 1968)
Training Grant:
Co-Director,
Training Program in Clinical Psychology (with Hunt, H., Director),
National
Institute of Mental Health, 1965. (continued support since 1958)
Publications and Papers:
Thetford,
W. N. The measurement of physiological responses to frustration
before and
after
client-centered psychotherapy, American Psychologist, 1948, 3,
278 (ab.).
Thetford,
W. N. & Molish, H. B. Aspects of personality development
in normal children.
American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1950, 20, 866 (ab.).
Thetford, W. N. Developmental aspects of fantasy in normal and schizophrenic children. American Psychologist, 1950, 5, 295 (ab..).
Beck,
S. J., Thiesen, W., Rabin, A., Molish, H. B. & Thetford, W.
N. The normal personality
as projected in the Rorschach test. Journal of Psychology,
1950, 30,
241-298.
Thetford, W. N. Childhood schizophrenia and the Rorschach test. Human Development Bulletin. University of Chicago, 1951, 10-14.
Thetford, W. N., Molish, H. B. & Beck, S. J. Developmental aspects of personality structure in normal children. Journal of Projective Techniques, 1951, 15, 58-78.
Thetford, W. N. The development of fantasy perceptions in children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1951, 21, 860 (ab.).
Thetford, W. N. An Organismic approach to frustration. Personality: Symposia on topical issues. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1951, 1-19.
Thetford, W. N. & DeVos, G. A Rorschach study of clinical groups by means of Fisher's maladjustment index. American Psychologist, 1951, 6, 505 (ab.).
Thetford,
W. N. Fantasy perceptions in the personality development
of normal and
deviant
children. American
Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1952, 22, 532-550.
Thetford,
W. N. An objective measurement of frustration tolerance
in evaluating psychotherapy. In
W. Wolff & J. Precker (Eds.), Success in Psychotherapy.
New
York: Grune & Stratton, 1952, 26-62.
Thetford, W. N. Personality characteristics of schizophrenic children. American Psychologist, 1952, 7, 301 (ab.).
Thetford,
W. N. Educational therapy as an integral part of the psychotherapeutic
process. Proceedings
of the Inter-American Psychological Association, Mexico,
1954,
24-25.
Thetford, W. N. (Chm.). Diagnostic techniques in clinical psychology. Proceedings of the International Applied Psychology Association, London, 1955, 56.
Nicholas,
Alma & Thetford, W. N. The use of the Hewson ratios
in the diagnosis of
cerebral
pathology. American Psychologist, 1955, 10, 563 (ab.).
Thetford,
W. N. & Goldberger, L. Personality features and reactions
in a group of
Chinese. American
Psychologist, 1956, 11, 385 (ab.).
Thetford, W. N., Goldberger, L/ & Wolff, H. G. A cross-cultural approach to the study of personality and illness. American Psychologist, 1957, 12, 375 (ab.).
Chapman, L. F., Berlin, L., Guthrie, T. C., Thetford, W. N. & Wolff, H. G. Human cerebral hemisphere function. The Physiologist, 1957, 1, 4.
Chapman,
L., Thetford, W. N., Berlin, L., Guthrie, T. & Wolff, H. G. Impairment
of cerebral
hemispheric functions following prolonged life stress in man.
Transactions
VIth I International
Congress of Neurology, Brussels, 1957, 203-
218.
Thetford,
W. N., Goldberger, L., Hinkle, L. & Wolff, H. G. Personality
features and their
cultural
interrelationships in a group of Chinese. Brussels: Proceedings
of 15th
International
Congress of Psychology, 1957, 541-542.
Hinkle,
L. E., Christenson, W., Kane, F. D., Ostfeld, A., Thetford, W.
N. & Wolff, H. G. Some
relationships between health, personality and environmental factors
in a
group
of adult
Chinese. Psychosomatic Medicine, 1957, 19, 159 (ab.).
Chapman,
L. F., Thetford, W. N., Berlin, L., Guthrie, T. C. & Wolff,
H. G. Studies in human
cerebral function: Prolonged stress and the highest integrative
functions
of
man. Excerpta
Medica, Free Communication 24, VIth International Congress
of
Neurology, Brussels,
1957.
Chapman,
L., Thetford, W. N., Guthrie, T., Berlin, L. & Wolff, H. G. Studies
in human cerebral
hemisphere functions. Transactions of American Neurological
Association,
1957, 95-96.
Hinkle,
L. E., Plummer, N., Metraux, R., Richter, P., Gittinger, J. W., Thetford,
W. N.. et
al. Studies in human ecology: factors relevant to the occurrence of
bodily
illness
and disturbances
in need, thought, and behavior in three homogeneous
population
groups. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 1957, 114, 212-220.
Chapman,
L., Thetford, W. N.. Berlin, L., Guthrie, T. & Wolff, H. G. Highest
integrative functions
in man during stress. The Brain and Human Behavior. Baltimore:
William
and Wilkins,
1958, 491-534.
Hinkle,
L. E., Christenson, W., Kane, F. D., Ostfeld, A., Thetford, W.
N. & Wolff, H. G. An
investigation of the relation between life experience, personality
characteristics,
and general susceptibility to illness. Psychosomatic Medicine,
1958,
20, 278-295.
Thetford,
W. N. The place of projective techniques in the medical
curriculum.
American
Psychologist, 1958, 13, 346 (ab.).
Thetford,
W. N. & Carr, A. C. The role of clinical psychology
in medical education.
Journal
of Medical Education, 1960, 35, 62-66.
Thetford,
W. N. Theoretical formulations in personality evaluation. American Psychologist,
1961, 16, 431 (ab.).
Schucman,
H., Saunders, D. R. & Thetford, W. N. An application
of syndrome analysis.
American
Psychologist, 1962, 17, 359 (ab.).
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. The personality assessment system. Human Ecology Fund, 1962. (Preliminary monograph).
Thetford,
W. N. Principles of administrative development: technical
developments. Presented
at Psychology Conference, New York State Department of Mental
Hygiene,
1962.
Thetford, W. N. Psychodynamics of intelligence: a projective approach. Address as president-elect, New York Society for Projective Techniques, 1962.
Thetford,
W. N. Theoretical formulations underlying research. Measurement
of
personality
traits resulting from the interaction of ability and environment.
New
York: Human Ecology
Fund, 1962, 1-3. (Foundation monograph).
Thetford, W. N. (Chm.). Symposium: Approaches to integrated concepts of personality theory and assessment. New York Academy of Science, June, 1964.
Thetford, W. N. (Ed.). Multitrait, multilevel personality assessment. New York: Human Ecology Fund, 1964, (Foundation monograph).
Thetford,
W. N. (Chm.) Symposium: Multitrait, multilevel personality
assessment:
theory,
measurement, evaluation. American Psychologist, 1963, 18,
411 (ab.).
Hunt, H. F. & Thetford, W. N. Editorial. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1965, 70, 1.
Thetford,
W. N. The Holtzman inkblot test. In O. Buros (Ed.). The
sixth mental measurements
yearbook. Highland Park, N.J.: The Gryphon Press, 1965,
442-444.
Thetford,
W. N., Schucman, H. & Farmer, C. Psychological testing
of children with
headaches. In
A. P. Friedman & E. Harms (Eds.), Headaches in children.
Springfield:
C. C. Thomas, 1967, 82-114.
Thetford,
W. N. Problems of assessment and evaluation of the mentally
retarded and the culturally
deprived, symposium discussant. Excerpta Medica, International
Congress,
Series, No. 153, 1967, 33-34.
Hinkle,
L. E., Plummer, N., Metraux, R., Richter, P., Gittinger, J. W.,
Thetford, W. N.,
et
al.
Studies in human ecology. In Rabkin, L.
Y. & Carr, J. E. (Eds.),
Sourcebook
in Abnormal Psychology. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967,
342-350.
Schucman,
H. & Thetford, W. N. Expressed symptoms and personality
traits in
conversion
hysteria. Psychological
Reports, 1968, 23, 231-243.
Thetford,
W. N. & Schucman, H. Personality patterns in migraine
and ulcerative
colitis
patients. Psychological
Reports, 1968, 23, 1206.
Thetford,
W. N. & Schucman, H. Self-choices, preferences, and
personality traits.
Psychological
Reports, 1969, 25, 659-667.
Schucman,
H. & Thetford, W. N. A comparison of personality traits
in ulcerative colitis
and
migraine patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1970
76, (in press).
Thetford, W. N. & Schucman, H. Conversion reactions and personality traits. Psychological Reports, 1970, (in press).
Thetford,
W. N. & Schucman, H. Motivational factors and adaptive
behavior, (Chapter
17).
In
Downey, J. A. & Darling, R. C. (Eds.). The physiologic basis
of
rehabilitation
medicine. Philadelphia:
W. B. Saunders, 1971 (in press).
Editorship:
Associate
Editor, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1965-1970,
(with
Howard F. Hunt, Editor,