What 3 women would you say contributed most to the field of psychology?

-- Kat Snow (katsnow@bak.rr.com), April 28, 2002

Answers

You should make up your own mind on that one, as there are far too many significant women to choose from. Check the following sources:

Scarborough, Elizabeth & Furumoto, Laurel. (1987). Untold lives: The first generation of American women psychologists. New York: Columbia University Press.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (1983). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (1988). Models of achievement: Reflections of eminent women in psychology. Vol. 2. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

O’Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe. (Eds). (1990). Women in psychology: A bio-bibliographic sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press.

Stevens, Gwendolyn & Gardner, Sheldon (1982). The women of psychology. Vol. I. Pioneers and innovators. Vol. II. Expansion and refinement. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman.

O'Connell, Agnes N. & Russo, Nancy Felipe, Eds. (1980). Eminent women in psychology: Models of achievement. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 5, 144pp.

Furumoto, Laurel & Scarborough, Elizabeth (1986). Placing women in the history of psychology. American Psychologist, 4, 35-42.

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), April 28, 2002.

Hi, Kat......the 3 women who, in my very personal view contributed the most:

1.Karen Horney gave us tremendous insight regarding neurotic needs, and the emotional as well as intellectual tyranny caused by both the "idealized self" and the "despised self".

2.Alice Miller's contributions to the origins and results of child abuse, are unequaled anywhere. She has written more than a dozen books about this issue to which she has devoted her life's work.

3.Shakti Gawain, though neither an academic nor a psychologist (as far as I know), has given us a powerful awareness of the spiritual dimension of psychology. thereby propelling the discipline towards a more humane horizon.

-- visualize me (visualizeme@webtv.net), May 02, 2002.