Tamara Dembo
American university teacher and psychologist
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- PhD Psychology American University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Tamara Dembo , was a Russian Empire-born American psychologist. She was one of the pioneers of psychological field theory and rehabilitation psychology. Life Tamara Dembo was born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire on 28 May 1902 to Russian Jewish parents. She worked with Kurt Lewin where she earned her Ph.D at the University of Berlin in 1930. That same year she came to the United States to study with Kurt Koffka at Smith College as a research assistant in experimental psychology and decided to remain in the United States as the political situation in Germany deteriorated with the rise of the Nazi Party. She worked at the Worcester State Hospital and was a researcher at Cornell University through 1935 and then worked at the University of Iowa as a research fellow on child welfare through 1943. Dembo was appointed assistant professor at Mount Holyoke College and then moved to Stanford University to direct research projects on rehabilitation psychology where she worked with Beatrice Wright. She was appointed associate professor at Clark University in 1952 and was promoted to full professor two years later. She retired in 1972, but continued working as an emerita until 1992.
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