Stewart Paton

Stewart Paton M.D. (April 19, 1865 – January 7, 1942) was an American psychiatrist and educator.

Biography[]

Born in New York City in 1865, Stewart Paton graduated from Princeton (1886) and receive his M.D. degree from Columbia three years later. He lectured for a time at Columbia and Yale University. Paton was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the New York Academy of Medicine, and the Harvey Society. He was a leading eugenicist of his day and president of the Eugenics Research Association. Paton was a strong advocate of American entry into World War I.^[1] Paton opposed the right of Conscientious objection, arguing in an article for the New York Times that conscientious objectors suffered from "an inadequacy of neurotic constitutions".^[1] Paton was also antagonistic to Communism, arguing in his book Education in War and Peace that Communism was a "mania" rather than a political philosophy.^[2] He died of heart disease in 1942.^[3]

Works[]

• Psychiatry. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1905.
• Miscellaneous Publications, 1902-1919.
• Education in War and Peace. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1920.
• Human Behavior in Relation to the Study of Educational, Social, and Ethical Problems. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.
• Signes of Sanity. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
• Prohibiting Minds and the Present Social and Economic Crisis, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1932.

Articles[]

• "University Reforms," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXVIII, 1911, pp. 52–70.
• "The World's Most Important Conservation Problem," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXXI, 1912, pp. 163–169.
• "College or University?," Popular Science Monthly, Vol. LXXXII, 1913, pp. 192–201.
• "The Essentials of an Education," Mental Hygiene, Vol. IV, 1920, pp. 265–280.
• “The Psychology of the Radical,” The Yale Review, Vol. XI, 1922, pp. 89–101.
• "Protecting Civilization," The Harpers Monthly, Vol. CXLVIII, No. 884, January 1924, pp. 165–173.
• "Education for Sanity," The Forum, Vol. LXXIX, No. 6, June 1928, pp. 868–876.
• "Co-operation or Revolution," The Forum, Vol. XCII, No. 3, September 1934, pp. 185–188.

Other[]

• "What Psychiatry Teaches Concerning Educational Methods," Proceedings of the Mental Hygiene Conference and Exhibit, 1912.
• "Human Behavior in War and Peace," The Harvey Lectures, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1920.

See also[]

• Adolf Meyer
• Eugenics in the United States
• Thomas P. Bailey

References[]

Further reading[]

• Beers, Clifford W. (1921). The Mental Hygiene Movement, [s.n.], 1921.

External links[]

• Works by Stewart Paton, at JSTOR