Savage, Charles (1918-2007)

Biographical Information

Charles W. Savage was born on September 25, 1918 in Berlin, Connecticut. He received a B.A. from Yale in 1939, an M.D. from the University of Chicago in 1945, and an M.A. in Spanish from Middlebury College in 1999. He also attended the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute in 1957 and served as a Lieutenant Mass Communication Specialist in the United States Navy from 1946-1953. He published fifty papers on psychopharmacology and psychoanalysis, several of which were co-authored with his wife, Ethel. He was a member of the editorial board of Psychiatry and a member of the American Psychiatric Association (fellow), American Psychoanalytic Association, American Electoencephlogram Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington Psychoanalytic Society, Baltimore Psychoanalytic Society, San Francisco Psychoanalytic Society. Savage was also a poet and published, in Spanish and English, Las Tinieblas en el Dia de Pentecostes. Upon his retirement, he became a medical missionary to Guatemala. At the age of 89, Savage passed away at his home on December 12, 2007.

Chronology:

Professional Chronology

1945

Intern at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1946

Assistant resident in psychiatry at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

1947-1948

Resident psychiatrist at the U.S. Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

1948-1949

Chief psychiatrist at the U. S. Naval Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina

1949-1952

Research Psychiatrist at the Naval Medical Research Institute and the National Naval Medical Center, both Bethesda, Maryland

1951

Diplomat of American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

1953-1958

Acting chief adult psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland

1957-1958

Fellow of Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California

1958-1960

Psychiatrist at the Livermore Sanitarium, Livermore, California

1961

Research associate on Aro Project at Abeo Kuta, Nigeria at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

1961-1962

Psychiatrist at the Stanford Veterans Administration Hospital, Palo Alto, California

1962-1964

Medical director at the International Foundation for Advanced Study, Menlo Park, California

1964-1965

Psychiatrist, County of Santa Clara, San Jose, California

1965

Assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University

1965-1968

Clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland

Director of research at the Spring Grove State Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

1967

David C. Wilson Society Lecturer at University of Virginia

1968-1972

Associate Director and Research Scientist at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, Maryland

Clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland

1972

Chief of psychiatric services and chief of Drug Treatment Center at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland

Associate Professor at the University of Maryland

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