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David Rapaport

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David Rapaport · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Psychologist who systematized psychoanalytic ego psychology and testing

When

1911 — 1960, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States

Where

Hungary · United States

Biography

David Rapaport is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychologist who systematized psychoanalytic ego psychology and testing

How & why

David Rapaport was a Hungarian-born psychologist who emigrated to the United States and became the leading systematizer of psychoanalytic ego psychology and of psychological testing, notably through Diagnostic Psychological Testing and his structural theory of thought. He worked at the Menninger and Austen Riggs clinics. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Psychologist who systematized psychoanalytic ego psychology and testing

1911

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology