Editing Aaron Beck (section)

==Early life and education==
Aaron Temkin Beck was born in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]], on July 18, 1921. He was the youngest of four children born to Elizabeth Temkin and Harry Beck, [[Jews|Jewish]] immigrants from [[History of the Jews in Ukraine|Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishexponent.com/2017/10/18/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-expert-aaron-beck-going-strong-96/|title=Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Expert Aaron Beck Going Strong at 96|date=October 18, 2017 |publisher=Jewish Exponent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agiRAgAAQBAJ&q=Harry+and+Elizabeth+Temkin+Beck&pg=PA260|title = Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy|isbn = 978-1-135-84639-8|last1 = Fall|first1 = Kevin A.|last2 = Holden|first2 = Janice Miner|last3 = Marquis|first3 = Andre|date = January 19, 2011| publisher=Routledge }}</ref> Harry worked as a printer and Elizabeth's family found financial success in tobacco wholesaling; the family belonged to the upwardly-mobile vanguard of Providence's Eastern European-Jewish immigrant community. At the time of Aaron's birth, the Temkin-Becks lived a "comfortable, lower-middle class lifestyle" and were in the process of putting down roots on [[East Side, Providence, Rhode Island|Providence's East Side]]. In 1923, when Aaron was two years old, the family purchased a house at 43/41 Sessions Street in the city's [[Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island|Blackstone]] neighborhood.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Rosner|first=Rachael I.|date=November 2016|title=Aaron T. Beck, the "Golden Ghetto" of Providence, and Cognitive Therapy|url=http://www.rijha.org/wp-content/uploads/RIJH-Notes/Notes%20PDF/Notes%2017.2%202016.pdf|journal=Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association|volume=17 #2}}</ref>
[[File:Aaron_T._Beck,_1939.jpg|thumb|Beck's [[Hope High School (Rhode Island)|Hope High School]] yearbook photograph]]
Beck attended John Howland Grammar School, Nathan Bishop Junior High, and [[Hope High School (Rhode Island)|Hope Street High School]], where he graduated as valedictorian in 1938. As an adolescent, Beck dreamed of becoming a journalist.<ref name=":1"/> Beck matriculated at [[Brown University]], where he graduated ''[[Latin honors|magna cum laude]]'' in 1942.<ref name=CAO>{{cite book|title=Aaron T(emkin) Beck|work=Contemporary Authors Online|publisher=Gale|location=Detroit, Michigan|year=2004}}</ref> At Brown, he was elected a member of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] society, was an associate editor of ''[[The Brown Daily Herald]]'', and received the Francis Wayland Scholarship, William Gaston Prize for Excellence in Oratory, and Philo Sherman Bennett Essay Award.<ref name="Beck" /> Beck attended [[Yale Medical School]], planning to become an [[Internal medicine|internist]] and work in private practice in Providence. He graduated from Yale with a [[Doctor of Medicine]] in 1946.<ref name=doctor/>