Margaret Mahler
Margaret Mahler · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst known for the theory of separation-individuation in children
1897, Sopron, Hungary — 1985, New York City, United States
Hungary · Austria · United States
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Margaret Mahler was a Hungarian-American physician and psychoanalyst who developed the influential theory of separation-individuation, describing how infants psychologically differentiate from their mothers to form a sense of self. Trained in Vienna, she fled Nazism and worked in New York. She was born into a Jewish family in Sopron, Hungary.
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Psychoanalyst known for the theory of separation-individuation in children
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