Lydiard Heneage Horton was a consulting psychologist

Psychologist

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 and author

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, who lectured and wrote about dream

Dream

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 psychology

Psychology

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, and World War I

World War I

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 shell shock

Shell Shock

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 and trench nightmare.

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

Samuel Dana Horton

Samuel Dana Horton , American writer on bimetallism, was born in Pomeroy, Ohio.He graduated at Harvard in 1864, and at the Harvard Law School in 1868, studied Roman law in Berlin in 1869, and in 1871 was admitted to the Ohio bar...

 (d.1895) a lawyer and writer on bimetalism and an English mother Blanche Harriot Lydiard (d. 1898) who was born in India. Lydiard Horton's childhood was spent in England, United States and Switzerland.

His papers are collected at Columbia University

Columbia University

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External links

• Columbia Universities Library entry for Horton