Samuel Slavson
Samuel Slavson · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Pioneer of group psychotherapy
1890, Konstantinograd, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) — 1981, United States
Ukraine · United States
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Samuel Richard Slavson (born Amstislavski) was a Russian-born American educator and pioneer of group psychotherapy, whose 'activity group therapy' and later analytic group methods were widely adopted for children and adults. He worked with the Jewish Board of Guardians in New York and helped found the American Group Psychotherapy Association. He was of Jewish heritage, having fled the pogroms of the Russian Empire before immigrating in 1903.
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Pioneer of group psychotherapy
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