Kardiner, Abram, 1891-
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- Summary
- Abram Kardiner was a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic therapist. An active publisher of academic research, he co-founded the Psychoanalytic and Psychosomatic Clinic for Training and Research in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York City. Kardiner was deeply interested in cross-cultural diagnosis and the psychoanalytic study of culture. While teaching at Columbia, he developed a course on the application of psychoanalysis to the study of culture and worked closely with anthropologists throughout his career. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][3][4][5]
- Unknown [2]
- Born
- 1891 [2]
- 1891-08-17 [5]
- Birth Place
- New York [3]
- New York City [5]
- Died
- 1981 [2]
- 1981-07-20 [5]
- Death Place
- Easton (Conn.) [3]
- Easton [5]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [5]
- psychiatrist [5]
- psychologist [5]
- Profession
- Psychiater [2]
- Employer
- Columbia University [5]
- Educated at
- Cornell University [5]
- Country of Education
- United States [5]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [5]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [5]
- American National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [5]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. Wikidata
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