Dr Catharine Gail Kincaid
Dr. Catharine Kincaid was the first American Indian to receive a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health/American Psychiatric Association.
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Dr Grete Lehner Bibring
Appointed chief of psychiatry at Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital in 1946 and in 1961 she became one of only a few woman physicians appointed to a full professorship at Harvard Medical School at the time.
Dr Carol Nadelson
Dr. Carol Nadelson was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr Jennifer Richeson
Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.
Dr Alice Bennett
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Patricia Redlich
Irish journalist and psychologist
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