Patricia Redlich
Irish journalist and psychologist
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Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
American botanist, educator, author and editor
Karen Horney
German psychoanalyst who later practiced in the United States. Her pioneering theories challenged traditional Freudian beliefs, especially in the realms of sexuality and psychoanalysis’s instinctual emphasis.
Mary Bolton
Irish alcholism counsellor
Dr Ada English
Irish doctor, academic and nationalist
Dr Maud McKee
Irish medical doctor, activist and psychotherapist
Alice Bradley Sheldon
Science fiction writer under the pen name James Tiptree Jr.
Mary Joy Langdon
Sister Mary Joy Langdon, who has the renown of being Britain’s first female retained professional fire-fighter before going on to create an innovative charity, introducing inner-city children and young people with disabilities to horse riding and equine therapy.
Dr Helen Boyle
Helen Boyle (1869-1957) was Brighton’s first woman GP and transformed the lives of working-class women in the area through her ground-breaking treatment of mental illness.
Hilde Himmelweit
German social psychologist who was influential on the development of the discipline in the United Kingdom