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PSYCHOLOGIST

Benjamin Spock

1903 - 1998

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Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician and left-wing political activist whose book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946 and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. The book's premise told mothers, "You know more than you think you do." Spock's parenting advice and recommendations revolutionized parental upbringing in the United States, and he is considered to be among the most famous and influential Americans of the 20th century.Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics. His ideas about childcare influenced several generations of parents to be more flexible and affectionate with their children and to treat them as individuals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Spock has received more than 1,458,477 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Benjamin Spock is the 98th most popular psychologist (up from 108th in 2019), the 1,729th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,825th in 2019) and the 36th most popular American Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Benjamin Spock ranks 98 out of 183Before him are Aleksei N. Leontiev, James McKeen Cattell, Harry Stack Sullivan, Charles Spearman, John Money, and René Spitz. After him are Michael Balint, Urie Bronfenbrenner, Théodule-Armand Ribot, Otto Gross, Hugo Münsterberg, and Clark L. Hull.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Benjamin Spock ranks 78Before him are Mikhail Kalatozov, Werner Ostendorff, Vladimir Bartol, Lou Gehrig, Johannes Heesters, and Yevgeny Mravinsky. After him are Sadegh Hedayat, Joan Robinson, Evelyn Waugh, Werner Best, Charles W. Morris, and Prince Nicholas of Romania. Among people deceased in 1998, Benjamin Spock ranks 54Before him are Tameo Ide, Maurice Bucaille, Verner Panton, Wolf Vostell, Sonny Bono, and Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche. After him are Kurt Franz, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Martin Rodbell, Roddy McDowall, Kenichi Fukui, and Marie-Louise von Franz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Benjamin Spock ranks 1,729 out of 18,182Before him are Stephen Jay Gould (1941), Juliet Anderson (1938), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Roger Ebert (1942), and Count Basie (1904). After him are Bob Gunton (1945), Alfred Newman (1900), John Turturro (1957), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Benjamin Spock ranks 36Before him are Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), Benjamin Bloom (1913), George Armitage Miller (1920), Rollo May (1909), James McKeen Cattell (1860), and Harry Stack Sullivan (1892). After him are Clark L. Hull (1884), Carol Gilligan (1936), George Kelly (1905), Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944), Robert Sternberg (1949), and Robert Plutchik (1927).