John Thompson MacCurdy, or John Thomson MacCurdy (1886 – 1947), was a Canadian psychiatrist. He was the co-founder and first secretary of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He taught at Cornell University from 1913 to 1922. In 1923, he became a lecturer in psychopathology at Cambridge University.

Works The psychology of war, 1917. With a preface by W. H. R. Rivers War neuroses, 1918 (ed.) Benign stupors: a study of a new manic-depressive reaction type by August Hoch Problems in dynamic psychology: a critique of psychoanalysis and suggested formulations, 1922 The structure of emotion, mobid and normal, 1925 Common principles in psychology and physiology, 1928 Mind and money: a psychologist looks at the crisis, 1932 The structure of morale, 1943 Germany, Russia and the future, 1944. Current Problems No. 23. Translated into French as L'Allemagne, la Russie le l'avenir: essai psycholoique, 1944

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