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Paula Clayton. 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.
2000 National Medal of Science recipient, professor of psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Giorgio Antonucci. 1933–2017. Italian. Critic of the basis of psychiatry. David Ames. 1984. Australian. 2018 Order of Australia recipient for research in dementia and the mental health of older persons.
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 ...
Fields. Psychiatry. Judith Lewis Herman (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incest and traumatic stress. Herman is Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry ...
University of Louisville School of Medicine. Leah Joan Dickstein ( nee Chernoble; August 17, 1934 – December 16, 2019) was an American psychiatrist. She was the president of the American Medical Women's Association, Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association, and Founder and President of the Association of Women Psychiatrists.
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (née Reichmann; October 23, 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany – April 28, 1957 in Rockville, Maryland) was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who immigrated to America during World War II. She was a pioneer for women in science, specifically within psychology and the treatment of schizophrenia.
Gloria Johnson-Powell. 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.
University of Michigan. Occupation. Psychiatrist. Cornelia Burwell Wilbur (August 26, 1908 – September 20, 1992) was an American psychiatrist. She is best known for a book, written by Flora Rheta Schreiber, and two television films titled Sybil, about the psychiatric treatment she rendered to a person diagnosed with dissociative identity ...