Françoise Minkowska
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Françoise Minkowska-Brokman (January 22, 1882 - September 15, 1950)was a French Jewish psychiatrist
, born in Poland
. She was married to Eugene Minkowski
, psychiatrist, and the mother of Alexandre Minkowski
, pediatrician. She was a student of Eugen Bleuler
and associated with the work of Hermann Rorschach
, another of Bleuler's pupils.
Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders. All psychiatrists are trained in diagnostic evaluation and in psychotherapy...
, born in Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. She was married to Eugene Minkowski
Eugène Minkowski
Eugène Minkowski was a French psychiatrist, born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.Minkowski proposed that psychopathology should always be interpreted taking into account the personal experience of time. The main concepts created by Minkowski included the ideas of "vital contact with reality" and...
, psychiatrist, and the mother of Alexandre Minkowski
Alexandre Minkowski
Alexandre Minkowski was a French pediatrician, and arguably the French physician who most influenced neonatology in the 20th century.He was the son of Eugene Minkowski and Françoise Minkowska, two Jewish psychiatrists....
, pediatrician. She was a student of Eugen Bleuler
Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and for coining the term "schizophrenia."-Biography:...
and associated with the work of Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, best known for developing a projective test known as the Rorschach inkblot test. This test was reportedly designed to reflect unconscious parts of the personality that "project" onto the stimuli...
, another of Bleuler's pupils.