About Albert J. Solnit
Lived 1919 – 2002 (aged 82). Albert J. Solnit was an American psychiatrist, child psychiatrist and medical author.
Albert Jay Solnit (August 26, 1919 – June 21, 2002) was an American psychoanalyst in the tradition of ego psychology He was an advocate of privileging children's needs in child custody cases. Solnit began teaching at the Yale School of Medicine in 1952 and was Sterling Professor of Psychiatry from 1970 to 1990. He was an editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child from 1980 to 2002.
Thematic interests Solnit saw play as a signature expression of the child's personality - something he linked to Winnicott's concept of the transitional object.
In a series of books co-authored with Anna Freud and legal scholar Joseph Goldstein, he stressed the importance of the psychological needs of the child in custody law.
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Who was Albert J. Solnit?
American psychoanalyst
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Albert J. Solnit was born on 26 August 1919 in Los Angeles.
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Albert J. Solnit died on 21 June 2002.
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Albert J. Solnit was a psychiatrist, child psychiatrist and medical author.
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Albert J. Solnit was American.
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