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Dr Edith Banfield Jackson

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Dr Edith Banfield Jackson

Birth
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
Death
5 Jun 1977 (aged 82)
Burial
Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 00017 000052 - 0000NE
Memorial ID
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Information from the 1978 Cyclopedia of American Biography

Dr. Jackson was a pediatrician and child psychiatrist. Her parents were William and Helen Fiske (Banfield) Jackson. She graduated with a B.A. in 1916 at Vassar College and M.D. in 1921 at Johns Hopkins University. She was a postgraduate student in medicine at Vienna (Austria) University and also studied at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. Upon returning the U.S., she began a private practice in New Haven, seeing a few adult patients and a few children in play therapy. By 1947, she had ceased her private practice to devote full time to her hospital work. She joined the staff of Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. Additionally, at the hospital she helped initiate a rooming-in plan for mothers and newborn babies and a parent-child relationship study. She devoted much of her time to clinical studies.

Contributor: CarolynA (47198156)
Information from the 1978 Cyclopedia of American Biography

Dr. Jackson was a pediatrician and child psychiatrist. Her parents were William and Helen Fiske (Banfield) Jackson. She graduated with a B.A. in 1916 at Vassar College and M.D. in 1921 at Johns Hopkins University. She was a postgraduate student in medicine at Vienna (Austria) University and also studied at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. Upon returning the U.S., she began a private practice in New Haven, seeing a few adult patients and a few children in play therapy. By 1947, she had ceased her private practice to devote full time to her hospital work. She joined the staff of Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. Additionally, at the hospital she helped initiate a rooming-in plan for mothers and newborn babies and a parent-child relationship study. She devoted much of her time to clinical studies.

Contributor: CarolynA (47198156)

Gravesite Details

Buried: 6/9/1977, Source: City of Colo Spgs cemetery data 3/14/09



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