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EDITH B. JACKSON, CLINICAL PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF PEDIATRICS and Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, psychoanalyst and pioneer in the efforts to introduce psychoanalytic concepts into the mainstream of child care, died quietly in her sleep on June 5, 1977, in Denver, Colorado, at the age of 82. Her death ends a half century of dedicated clinical service and teaching in pediatrics and psychiatry. Few individuals maintain as steadfast and important a professional role as she did.
Born January 2, 1895, in Colorado Springs, Edith Jackson grew up in a Quaker family whose members were leaders in community affairs. Her father, William Sharpless Jackson, a railroad executive, actively supported the movement for improving the status of native American Indians. It is understandable that Edith Jackson became a strong advocate for the causes she believed to be important.
She graduated from Vassar College in 1916. Her characteristic warmth and quality of caring were appreciated by her classmates, who prophetically wrote in the yearbook: "Edith won't need to use much medicine when she becomes a doctor, for her own good spirits alone will effect many a cure."
Edith Jackson received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1921, spent one year interning in medicine in Iowa City, and