In 1948, Dr. Margaret Lawrence was the first African American to complete a residency at the New York Psychiatric Institute and the first African American trainee to be certified in psychoanalysis at Columbia University’s Columbia Psycoanalytic Center. In 1953, she was the first practicing child psychiatrist in Rockland County, New York and co-founder of the Rockland County Center for Mental Health in New York.
In 1971, Dr. Jeanne Spurlock became the first African American and first woman to receive the Edward A. Strecker M.D. Award.
Dr. Catharine Kincaid was the first American Indian to receive a fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health/American Psychiatric Association.
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 was the first woman president of the American Psychiatric Association.
Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.
The first woman to obtain a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Irish journalist and psychologist
American botanist, educator, author and editor
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.