Reminiscences of Sibylle Korsch Escalona : oral history, 1982.

Biographical Note

Psychologist.

Scope and Contents

Family background, influence of mother and Kurth Lewin on interest in psychology; education, Iowa State University; early employment: psychiatric intern on babies' ward, Woman's Reformatory, Framingham, MA, head of nursery school in rural Tennessee; Menninger Clinic: interest in early phases of ego development, demands of position as Research Director; Executive Director, Foundations Fund for Research in Psychology, Yale University, 1951-55; Chief Psychologist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1955- : research in prediction of future behavior of infants, symbolic functioning in children, premature babies and risk of later neurological illness; research methods: relations with subjects' families, funding problems.

Subjects

• Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
• Child health services.
• Escalona, Sibylle K. (Sibylle Korsch), 1915-1996.
• Infant psychology.
• Interviews.
• Menninger Clinic.
• Oral histories.
• Polsky, Richard M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Premature infants.
• Psychologists--Interviews.
• Women psychologists--Interviews.
• Yale University.

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