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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 299,734 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Margaret Mahler is the 63rd most popular psychologist (down from 61st in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 84th 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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  • 25

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  • 10.17

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  • 1.69

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Margaret Mahler ranks 63 out of 183. Before her are Sándor Ferenczi, Leon Festinger, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Edward C. Tolman, and Pierre Janet. After her are Timothy Leary, Ernst Kretschmer, Frederick Herzberg, Bruno Bettelheim, Edward B. Titchener, and Stanislav Grof.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Margaret Mahler ranks 39. Before her are Ivan Bagramyan, Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, John Franklin Enders, Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Kirill Meretskov, and Paul Delvaux. After her are Plaek Phibunsongkhram, Vlado Chernozemski, Joseph Berchtold, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Gershom Scholem, and Leonid Govorov. Among people deceased in 1985, Margaret Mahler ranks 24. Before her are Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Philip Larkin, Anne Baxter, John Franklin Enders, Ian Stewart, and Ferhat Abbas. After her are Emil Gilels, Paul Flory, Elsa Morante, Rodney Robert Porter, James Hadley Chase, and Robert Graves.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Margaret Mahler ranks 86 out of 866. Before her are Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917), Theodore von Kármán (1881), Đurađ Branković (1377), István Szabó (1938), Stephen II of Hungary (1101), and György Cziffra (1921). After her are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1831), Ladislaus II of Hungary (1131), Georg von Békésy (1899), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), Kinga of Poland (1224), and Ladislaus III of Hungary (1199).

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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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