Morton Prince

Morton Prince (1854 to 1929) was an American physician who specialised in neurology and abnormal psychology and was a leading force in establishing psychology as a clinical and academic discipline. Born into a wealthy Boston family, he took his medical degree at Harvard in 1879, turned to neurology after visiting Jean Martin Charcot at the Salpêtrière in Paris, and became the American expert on dissociative states, which he also called multiple personality. He helped found the Journal of Abnormal Psychology in 1906 and edited it until his death, founded the American Psychopathological Association and the Harvard Psychological Clinic, and told the case of Christine Beauchamp in The Dissociation of a Personality (1906). He stressed the subconscious in hysterical symptoms but was critical of psychoanalysis, and he was skeptical of paranormal claims.