Lydiard Heneage Horton (1879 – January 19, 1945) was an American consulting

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

and author, who lectured and wrote about

dream A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

, as well as

World War I World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

shell shock Shell shock is a term coined in World War I by the British psychologist Charles Samuel Myers to describe the type of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) many soldiers were afflicted with during the war (before PTSD was termed). It is a react ...

and trench nightmare.

Biography

Horton was born in London, the only child of

Samuel Dana Horton Samuel Dana Horton (January 16, 1844 – February 23, 1895), American writer on bimetallism, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio. He graduated at Harvard in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, studied Roman law in Berlin in 1869, and in 1871 wa ...

(died 1895), a lawyer and writer on bimetalism, and an English mother, Blanche Harriot Lydiard (died 1898), who was born in India. Horton's childhood was spent in England, the United States, and Switzerland. He died on January 19, 1945.

Legacy

His papers are collected at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

Book

*''The Dream Problem and Mechanism of Thought'', 1925

References

External links

Columbia Universities Library entry for Horton
American non-fiction writers 20th-century American psychologists 1879 births 1945 deaths Health professionals from London British emigrants to the United States {{US-nonfiction-writer-stub