Benjamin Wolman

Benjamin Binem Wolman (October 27, 1908 – January 3, 2000) was a Polish-American psychologist and writer.

Wolman obtained a Ph.D. in psychology in 1935 from the University of Warsaw. He later emigrated to the United States . He worked as a lecturer at Columbia University and a Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University. From 1958–1962 he worked as a clinical lecturer in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1965-1978 he worked as Professor of Psychology at Long Island University.^[1]

He founded the ″International Organization for the Study of Group Tensions″ and the International Journal of Group Tensions.^[2]

Wolman was the editor or writer of 42 books in psychology and over 200 scientific papers, he was a practitioner of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.^[3][4]

Selected publications

• Handbook of Clinical Psychology (1965)
• Psychosomatic Disorders (1968)
• Children Without Childhood: A Study of Childhood Schizophrenia (1970)
• Manual of Child Psychopathology (1971)
• Handbook of Dreams: Research, Theories, and Applications (1973)
• Handbook of General Psychology (1973)
• Handbook of Parapsychology (1977)
• Logic of Science in Psychoanalysis (1984)
• Handbook of Intelligence: Theories, Measurements, and Applications (1985)
• Handbook of States of Consciousness (1986)
• The Family Guide to Mental Health (1991)
• Personality Dynamics (1992)
• Handbook of Human Sexuality (1993)
• Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Handbook (1994)
• Adolescence: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives (1998)

References

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