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).