Emanuel Miller

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Emanuel Miller (26 August 1892 – 29 July 1970) was a British psychiatrist. He is best known for his work on

child psychology
.

Life

Miller was born on 26 August 1892 into a Lithuanian Jewish family in Spitalfields, London, and was educated at Parmiter's School and the City of London School. He entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1911, and later went to the London Hospital Medical College, gaining a medical diploma in 1918. He then took the Cambridge diploma of psychological medicine, in 1921.[1]

Miller founded a child guidance clinic, the first in the United Kingdom, at the

RAMC, and helped form the Campaign for Mental Health. In later life he suffered from depression and severe rheumatoid arthritis. He died on 29 July 1970.[1]

One of those who has been called "father of British child psychiatry", Miller shares the appellation with Michael Rutter and Donald Winnicott.[2][3][4][5]

Family

Miller married Betty Spiro in 1933. The couple had a daughter, Sarah, and a son, Jonathan.[1]

See also

Notes

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/61403. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ^ "A brilliant, angry and divided self". The Jewish Chronicle. 4 January 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  3. ISBN 9780262027373
    . Retrieved 4 October 2017.
  4. ISBN 9780262027373
    .
  5. ^ Goldsmith, Linda (9 May 2000). "Mollie Mackenzie". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2017.
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