About Jadwiga Abramson
Lived 1887 – 1944 (aged 56–57). Jadwiga Abramson was a psychologist.
Jadwiga Abramson (17 February 1887 – 1944) was a Polish child psychologist. She was born and raised in Poland, and educated in France. She was chief of psychology at the Clinic of Paediatric Neuro-Psychiatry in Paris. Her work focused on psychological testing and mental hygiene in school-age children and adolescents, including studies of learning difficulties, behavioural instability and selective educational systems in Europe.
Biography Abramson attended the University of Paris, to pursue her medical degree. Staying in Paris, she began her career in neuropsychiatry at the Clinic of Paediatric Neuro-Psychiatry, where she was appointed the chief of psychology.
She was the co-founder in 1925, with Dr. Georges Heuyer (1884-1977), of the Clinic of Paediatric Neuro-Psychiatry in Paris. She died around 1944.
Selected publications
Journals
Abramson, J. (1920). Recherches sur les fonctions mentales de l'enfant à l'âge scolaire. Des services que peuvent rendre les examens psychologiques pour la connaissance d'une classe [L'Année psychologique] 22 pp. 184–220 Abramson, J., M. JADWIGA, and H. KOPP. "L'echelle métrique du developpement de la motricité chez l'enfant et chez l'adolescent par N. Oseretsky; traduite et adaptée." L'Hygyène Mentale 31 (1936): 53–75.
Books
L'enfant et l'adolescent instables études cliniques et psychologiques by Jadwiga Abramson L'enfant et l'adolescent instables by Jadwiga Abramson (1940) Notes sur quelques corrélations psycho-motrices chez les écoliers normaux by Jadwiga Abramson, and Suzanne Le Garrec (1937) L'Hygiène mentale de l'enfant en Allemagne. Rééducation et orientation professionnelle, by Jadwiga Abramson by Jadwiga Abramson (1931) Sur l'organisation de l'enseignement sélectif. Le système de Gary, by Mlle Jadwiga Abramson by Jadwiga Abramson (1928) Le profil mental de l'enfant by Jadwiga Abramson Quelques pratiques de rééducation des anormaux à l'âge scolaire by Jadwiga Abramson Notes sur le mouvement psychotechnique en Allemagne by Jadwiga Abramson Le Profil mental dans l'examen des jeunes délinquants, by Dr. Georges Heuyer et Jadwiga Abramson (1931) Sur l'organisation de l'enseignement sélectif : le système de Gary by Jadwiga Abramson Les Aptitudes intellectuelles spéciales chez les instables : Extrait des annales Médico-Psychologiques by Jadwiga Abramson Sur l'organisation de l'enseignement primaire sélectif en Allemagne by Jadwiga Abramson L'Oeuvre de rééducation intellectuelle et morale en Belgique, by Jadwiga Abramson et Hélène Kopp (1932) Psycholopathologie expérimentale comparée entre les séquelles d'encéphalite épidémique et les perversions constitutionnelles chez les enfants, by Dr. J. Roubinovitch et Jadwiga Abramson (1928)
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Jadwiga Abramson was born on 17 February 1887 in Poland.
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