PSYCHOLOGIST

Margaret Mahler

1897 - 1985

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Margaret Schönberger Mahler (May 10, 1897 in Ödenburg, Austria-Hungary; October 2, 1985 in New York) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and pediatrician. She did pioneering work in the field of infant and young child research. On the basis of empirical studies, she developed a development model that became particularly influential in psychoanalysis and Object relations theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Mahler has received more than 315,099 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Margaret Mahler is the 67th most popular psychologist (down from 63rd in 2019), the 102nd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 86th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Psychologist.

Margaret Mahler is most famous for her theory of separation-individuation. She believed that children go through a series of stages in which they separate from their mother to form an independent identity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Margaret Mahler ranks 67 out of 235. Before her are Geert Hofstede, Karl Abraham, Stanislav Grof, Leon Festinger, Alice Miller, and Philip Zimbardo. After her are Ernst Kretschmer, Otto Rank, Mary Ainsworth, Antonio Damasio, Ernst Heinrich Weber, and George Armitage Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Margaret Mahler ranks 48. Before her are Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Joseph Berchtold, John Franklin Enders, Leonid Govorov, Gershom Scholem, and John Cockcroft. After her are Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, Ye Jianying, Herbert Gille, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, and Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood. Among people deceased in 1985, Margaret Mahler ranks 24. Before her are Philip Larkin, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Anne Baxter, Ferhat Abbas, John Franklin Enders, and Paul Flory. After her are Emil Gilels, Macfarlane Burnet, James Hadley Chase, George Pólya, Robert Graves, and Elsa Morante.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Margaret Mahler ranks 102 out of 1,077. Before her are Samuel Aba (990), George Andrew Olah (1927), János Áder (1959), József Mindszenty (1892), Ágnes Heller (1929), and John Corvinus (1473). After her are Stephen IV of Hungary (1133), István Szabó (1938), Pál Teleki (1879), Cornel Wilde (1912), Pál Schmitt (1942), and Saint Margaret of Scotland (1045).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Hungary

Among psychologists born in Hungary, Margaret Mahler ranks 2. Before her are Sándor Ferenczi (1873). After her are Michael Balint (1896), and Franz Alexander (1891).

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