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PSYCHOLOGIST

Ronald Fairbairn

1889 - 1964

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William Ronald Dodds Fairbairn () FRSE (11 August 1889 – 31 December 1964) was a Scottish psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and a central figure in the development of the Object Relations Theory of psychoanalysis. He was generally known and referred to as "W. Ronald D. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Fairbairn has received more than 174,974 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Ronald Fairbairn is the 182nd most popular psychologist (down from 166th in 2019), the 2,779th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,665th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Psychologist.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Ronald Fairbairn ranks 182 out of 183Before him are Alan Baddeley, Karl H. Pribram, Nise da Silveira, Michael Tomasello, Jonathan Haidt, and Louis Leon Thurstone. After him are Frederik van Eeden, Karl Lashley, Abraham Brill, Robert Yerkes, V. S. Ramachandran, and Sandra Bem.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Ronald Fairbairn ranks 171Before him are Gottfried Fuchs, Arthur Waley, Julius Skutnabb, Dirk Coster, Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, and Willi Baumeister. After him are Recep Peker, Subhi Bey Barakat, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka, Marcel Moyse, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, and Pearl White. Among people deceased in 1964, Ronald Fairbairn ranks 118Before him are Joseph Schildkraut, Bernhard Goetzke, Jean-Baptiste Janssens, Rickard Sandler, Moa Martinson, and Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu. After him are Henry Maitland Wilson, Peter Romanovsky, Ólafur Thors, Pentti Eskola, Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt, and Jan de Vries.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronald Fairbairn ranks 2,779 out of 7,765Before him are Laura Ashley (1925), Caroline Goodall (1959), Ronald Speirs (1920), Cosmo Duff-Gordon (1862), John Shrapnel (1942), and Geoff Duke (1923). After him are Anna Kingsford (1846), William Hunter (1718), Eric Gill (1882), Jim Sturgess (1978), Barry Jackson (1938), and John Wilkinson (1728).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, Ronald Fairbairn ranks 14Before him are William McDougall (1871), Havelock Ellis (1859), Ernest Jones (1879), Alexander Bain (1818), Brenda Milner (1918), and Alan Baddeley (1934). After him are Anne Treisman (1935), Robin Dunbar (1947), Simon Baron-Cohen (1958), and Richard Wiseman (1966).