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James F. Masterson | |
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| Born | March 25, 1926 Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | April 12, 2010 (aged 84) Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Notre Dame Thomas Jefferson University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychiatry |
James F. Masterson (March 25, 1926—April 12, 2010) was a prominent American psychiatrist.
He was an internationally recognized psychiatrist who helped inaugurate the study and treatment of personality disorder including borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. He died April 12, 2010, of pneumonia at the age of eighty-four.