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Max Wertheimer taught psychology at The New School. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Max Wertheimer, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. Records pertaining to Max Wertheimer can be found in the New School Archives in the New School faculty vertical files collection.
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Mary Henle was a professor of psychology at the New School and the last surviving second-generation Gestalt theorist. Her accomplished career belies the restrictions women generally faced during the same period in the field of psychology. Born in 1913, Henle had the early advantage of parents who valued education and encouraged her to pursue her […]
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Leon Festinger(1919-1989) was an American social psychologist, known for his cognitive dissonance and social comparison theories. He taught at the New School from 1968-1989. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Leon Festinger, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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Karen Horney taught psychology at The New School. You can read more about her here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Karen Horney, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions. Records pertaining to Karen Horney can be found in the New School Archives in the New School faculty vertical files collection.
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John Watson (1878-1958) is remembered today as the flamboyant founder and promoter of behaviorist psychology. Born in 1878, he had a childhood of severe economic uncertainty but overcame obstacles to gain acceptance into graduate study at the University of Chicago in 1900, where he pioneered the use of animals in psychological research and contributed to […]
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Erich Fromm was a German-American social psychologist and psychoanalyst, who was associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory. His work challenged the theories of Sigmund Freud, [1] and brought psychoanalysis to bear on sociological and political questions. Fromm was born in 1900 in Frankfurt to Jewish parents. He studied at the University of Heidelberg […]
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Dorion Cairns (1901- 1973) was apart of the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in the 1950’s. You can read about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Dorion Cairns, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Rachel Blau DuPlessis and I, old friends from the Women’s Liberation Movement, discovered in the late eighties a shared indignation – and grief. "
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" In- and outsiders conceive of the modern city as a conglomerate of strangers, the individuals being anonymous and traditions and conventions lacking. "
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" In the psychoanalytic concept of neuroses a shift of emphasis has taken place: whereas originally interest was focused on the dramatic symptomatic picture, it is now being realized more and more that the real source of these psychic disorders lies in character disturbances... "