Sula Wolff
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Sula Wolff a prominent British child psychiatrist, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1924. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 she and her family came to Britain. She graduated in Medicine from Oxford University in 1947.
At the Maudsley Hospital
where she acquired a post-graduate training in psychiatry she became interested in the psychological problems of children. After the Maudsley Hospital she practiced in Cape Town and in New York.
She married Henry Walton, a South African psychiatrist. They settled in Edinburgh where Walton became Professor of Psychiatry and she, in 1966, became a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children
. She published Children under Stress in 1969.
Books:
At the Maudsley Hospital
Maudsley Hospital
The Maudsley Hospital is a British psychiatric hospital in South London. The Maudsley is the largest mental health training institution in the country...
where she acquired a post-graduate training in psychiatry she became interested in the psychological problems of children. After the Maudsley Hospital she practiced in Cape Town and in New York.
She married Henry Walton, a South African psychiatrist. They settled in Edinburgh where Walton became Professor of Psychiatry and she, in 1966, became a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Royal Hospital for Sick Children
The Royal Hospital for Sick Children may refer to:*Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh*Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow...
. She published Children under Stress in 1969.
Books:
- Children Under Stress Penguin Press: London (1969)
- Loners: the Life Path of Unusual Children: Routledge: London (1995)
External links
- Obituary (The Times, 5 October 2009)