of medicine Dr. Stanley W. Jackson
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Sept. 22, for Dr. Stanley W. Jackson, a longtime Yale faculty member known for his work as both a psychiatrist and as a scholar of the history of psychiatry and medicine.
Dr. Jackson, who was 80, died in May. The service in his memory will be held at 4 p.m. in the School of Medicine's Historical Library, 333 Cedar St.
Dr. Jackson's work focused on the areas of psychotherapy, group work, psychoanalysis, the history of psychiatry and the history of medicine. His scientific articles covered such subjects as melancholia and depression, the etiology of schizophrenia and psychological healing, among others.
Dr. Jackson came to Yale in 1964 as a research fellow in the Department of History of Science and Medicine. He became an assistant professor with a joint appointment in that department and the Department of Psychiatry in 1966. He was promoted to a full professor in the psychiatry department in 1975 and was appointed a full professor in the Section of the History of Medicine in 1981. During his Yale career, he also served as unit chief and service chief in psychotherapy at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and was the director of the Division of Outpatient Services there from 1975 to 1987. He served as acting executive director of the Yale Psychiatric Institute from 1987 to 1989.
Dr. Jackson also served on numerous departmental committees at the University. In 1991, the year he retired from Yale, he was given the Stephen Fleck Faculty Award as Exemplary Physician and Clinical Teacher in the psychiatry department. Five years later, he was presented the Distinguished Service Award from the department. His numerous other honors included a commendation for "outstanding contributions in psychiatry education" from the Yale Psychiatry Residents Association and the Benjamin Rush Award Lecture from the American Psychiatric Association. He was awarded a special fellowship and a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health for training and investigation in the history of psychiatry.
His contributions to the fields of psychiatry and the history of medicine extended far beyond Yale. Dr. Jackson was editor of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 1991 to 1996, and he was on the editorial board of Depression and Stress. His many other activities included serving as president of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, the Beaumont Medical Club and the American Association for the History of Medicine. In addition, he was councilor of the History of Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He conducted grant reviews for such organizations as the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among many others, and was a manuscript referee for numerous publications, including the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Yale and Oxford University presses and the Archives of General Psychiatry.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, Dr. Jackson earned his undergraduate and medical degrees from McGill University. He also trained at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Training Center and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. He was a flying officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1941 to 1945. He completed a medical internship at Victoria Hospital in Montreal and psychiatric residencies at the Provincial Mental Hospital in Essondale, British Columbia and Pinel Hospital in Seattle, where he served briefly as a staff psychiatrist. He later taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Training Center, and also had a private psychiatry practice in Seattle.
Dr. Jackson is survived by his wife, Joan Jackson, of Bethany, Connecticut; and a sister, Doris Ansley of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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