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Her main research focused on the development of triplets. She was one of the first women to earn a PhD in the area of psychology. She also earned a PhD in child development. [163] Ethel Dench Puffer Howes: 1872–1950 Noted for her work on aesthetics. She was one of the first women to receive a PhD from Harvard University. [citation needed]
Spanish psychiatrist, physician, and Republican politician Wayne Fenton: 1953–2006 US National Institute of Mental Health, ex-Chestnut Lodge: Eleanora Fleury: 1860–1940 Irish First female member of the Medico Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists) Viktor Frankl: 1905–1997 Austrian
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Psychiatrists / Women physicians: Women psychiatrists This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American psychiatrists . It includes American psychiatrists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Alice Helen Anne Boyle (19 November 1869 – 20 November 1957) [1] was an Irish-British physician and psychiatrist. [2] She was Brighton's first female general practitioner, and the first female president of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists). Boyle had a passion for helping women with mental ...
Joan Scott Wallace, outside of government service, a psychologist and educator; Henri Wallon, French psychology; Hans-Jürgen Walter, (Founder of Gestalt theoretical psychotherapy) Margaret Floy Washburn, first female psychology PhD; John B. Watson, Watsonian behaviorism; Paul Watzlawick; Ernst Heinrich Weber; David Wechsler
Paula Jean Clayton (December 1, 1934 – September 4, 2021) was an American psychiatrist. She was the first female chairperson of a major psychiatric department in the United States. She is known for destigmatising mental illness, rigorous data driven research methods to study psychiatry, especially depression and bipolar disorder.
[21] [22] As one of the first female psychiatrists, she was the first known woman to present a paper regarding feminine psychiatry. Fourteen of the papers she wrote between 1922 and 1937 were amalgamated into a single volume titled Feminine Psychology (1967). As a woman, she felt the mapping out of trends in female behaviour was a neglected issue.
Gloria Johnson-Powell (born Gloria Johnson, 1936 – October 11, 2017) [1] was a child psychiatrist who was also an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement and was one of the first African-American women to attain tenure at Harvard Medical School.