1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazettegazetteimporthttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/gazetteimport/Margaret Brenman-Gibson — Harvard Gazetterich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="YNQuTMN1kO"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/04/margaret-brenman-gibson/">Margaret Brenman-Gibson</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/04/margaret-brenman-gibson/embed/#?secret=YNQuTMN1kO" width="600" height="338" title="“Margaret Brenman-Gibson” — Harvard Gazette" data-secret="YNQuTMN1kO" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script>
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As the first psychologist, indeed the first non-physician from any discipline, to receive full clinical as well as research psychoanalytic training in America, Margaret Brenman-Gibson, PhD, broke ground for and inspired so many who came after her. Having accomplished this as a woman only confirmed the conviction she conveyed that doors would, indeed must, open to a person of talent, passion, persistence, and intellectual daring. She was fiercely committed to (so as not to repeat the word passion) her beliefs, which included psychoanalysis and the peace movement. She was among the last survivors of a generation of gifted young psychoanalysts who forged the hegemonic primacy of the American ego psychology paradigm. At Harvard, in the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge Hospital, she was one of the first women to be appointed as a full professor - Clinical Professor of Psychology in 1982.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/21-mm_brenman-1.jpg