Dr Jennifer Richeson
Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.
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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
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.