The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Wells, Frederic Lyman

WELLS, Frederic Lyman, American psychiatrist: b. Boston, Mass., 22 April 1884. He was graduated at Columbia University in 1903 and took his Ph.D. there in 1906. He was connected with the faculty at Columbia University in 1905-07 and in 1910-11; was assistant pathological psychologist at the McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass., in 1907-10 and in 1911-17; and was connected with the Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New York, in 1910-11. He was commissioned captain of the Signal Reserve Officers' Corps, 18 Sept. 1917, and was assigned to active service at Boston, 28 Sept. 1917. Author of “Mental Adjustments” (1917).