Paula Clayton

Paula Jean Clayton (December 1, 1934 – September 4, 2021) was an American psychiatrist.

Paula Jean Limberg was born on December 1, 1934, in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] She was one of three daughters born to Oscar Limberg and his wife, Dorothea Pflasterer.[1][2] Her father worked for a clothing company, and her mother was a suffragist.[1] Limberg married and later divorced Charles Clayton, with whom she had three children.[1] Paula Clayton enrolled at the University of Michigan as a pre-medicine student, and graduated in 1956.[1] She returned to her hometown to attend the Washington University School of Medicine.[1] Clayton was one of four women to graduate from WUSM in 1960.[1][3] She worked as an intern at St. Luke’s Hospital, and subsequently specialized in psychiatry during her residency at Barnes and Renard Hospitals.[3] From 1964 to 1965, Clayton was chief resident.[3] Upon completing her residency, Clayton joined the WUSM faculty.[3] At WUSM, Clayton worked closely with Eli Robins, George Winokur, Samuel Guze, and Ted Reich to develop what became known as the Feighner Criteria, a psychiatric diagnostic criteria based on the medical model, moving psychiatry away from introspection and psychoanalysis.[4] She was promoted to full professor in 1976.[2][3] Four years later, Clayton became the first woman in the United States to chair a department of psychiatry, when she left for the University of Minnesota Medical School.[2] Clayton stepped down from UM in 1999.[2][1] Between 2001 and 2005, Clayton was a part-time professor of psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.[1][2] From 2006 to 2014, she was based in New York City, and served the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention as its medical director.[1][2][4] Clayton retired from the position and moved to Pasadena, California, in 2015,[2] where she died on September 4, 2021, of a viral infection.[1][4]

The Journal of Affective Disorders published a festschrift to commemorate Clayton's career in 2006.[5][6]

References
  1. Risen, Clay (October 7, 2021). "Paula J. Clayton Dies at 86; Helped Destigmatize Depression and Suicide". New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  2. "Dr. Paula Jean Clayton". Star Tribune. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  3. "Paula J. Clayton (b. 1934)". Washington University in St. Louis.
  4. Hirschfeld, Robert M. A. (November 2021). "IN MEMORIAM – Paula J Clayton, MD". Neuropsychopharmacology. doi:10.1038/s41386-021-01233-w.
  5. Akiskal, Hagop S. (2006). "Paula Clayton: her role in the Development of the Field of Affectiveology". Journal of Affective Disorders. 92 (1): 1–2. doi:10.1016/J.JAD.2006.04.001.
  6. Eckert, Elke D.; Kim, Suck Won (2006). "Festschrift honoring Paula Clayton". Journal of Affective Disorders. 92 (1): 3–5. doi:10.1016/J.JAD.2005.12.030.
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