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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 ...
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.
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.
[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.
Mary Ainsworth. 1913–1999. Developmental psych. Known for her work in early emotional attachment with the Strange Situation design, as well as her work in the development of attachment theory. [4] Estefania Aldaba-Lim. 1917–2006. Clinical psych.
Martha Kirkpatrick. Martha J Kirkpatrick (December 1925 – August 2015) was an American psychoanalyst and clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. [1] She was also vice president of the American Psychiatric Association. She was known for pioneering work on lesbian parents, providing evidence that their ...
Psychiatrist. Margaret Julia Tobin (1952 – 14 October 2002) was a psychiatrist and leader of Australian mental health services reform. She was the victim of a murder committed by Eric Gassy, a former psychiatrist whom she had played a role in removing from medical practice some years prior.
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.