Sula Wolff

Early life She was born on 1 March 1924 in Berlin, Weimar Germany, to Friedel (née Saloman) and Walther Wolff, a patent lawyer. She was brought up in Wetzlar. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 she moved with her family to Hampstead, England. She then moved to New York to work as a research fellow before settling in Edinburgh in 1962. In 1966 she became a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

Awards She was an honorary fellow of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (1972), the Royal College of Psychiatrists (1972) and the Royal Society of Medicine.

Personal life While working at Maudsley Hospital she met Henry Walton, a South African psychiatrist. When he returned to South Africa to become Head of Psychiatry at Groote Schuur Hospital she went with him. They married in Cape Town in 1959. She moved with Walton to the United States in 1960 and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1962.

Wolff died in Edinburgh on 21 September 2009, a short time after being diagnosed with leukemia.

Publications Children Under Stress Penguin Press: London (1969). . Loners: the Life Path of Unusual Children Routledge: London (1995). .

Children Under Stress was popular not only with child psychiatrists but also social workers, teachers and psychologists.