Lydiard Horton
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Lydiard Heneage Horton (1879 – January 19, 1945) was an American consulting
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and author, who lectured and wrote about
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and trench nightmare.


Biography

Horton was born in London, the only child of Samuel Dana Horton (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
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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