Reminiscences of Helen Harris Perlman : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Psychiatric social worker; interviewee b. 1905.

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Minnesota; University of Minnesota, BA 1926; early social work experience with Jewish Social Service Bureau of Chicago, 1927-1932; student, New York School of Social Work; courses with Grace Marcus, Fern Lowry, and Gordon Hamilton; influence of Sigmund Freud on career; professor, University of Chicago, from 1945 on methods of eaching social work; theories of social work.

Subjects

• Grayson, Vida S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• New York School of Social Work.
• Oral histories.
• Perlman, Helen Harris.
• Psychiatric social work.
• Social service--United States.
• Social work education.
• Social workers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The National Association of Social Workers, 1981. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.