Female Psychiatrists

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Karen Horney
(German Psychoanalyst Best Known for Founding Feminist Psychology in Response to Freud’s Theory of Penis Envy)
Karen Horney
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Birthdate: September 16, 1885
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany
Died: December 4, 1952

Remembered for her pioneering work on feminist psychology, Karen Horney studied medicine at a time when women weren’t allowed in universities. Going against Sigmund Freud’s concept of penis envy, she suggested the idea of womb envy. She believed psychological differences weren’t rooted in gender but rather depended on the socio-cultural influences.

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Sabina Spielrein
(Psychiatrist)
Sabina Spielrein
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Birthdate: October 25, 1885
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Rostov-on-Don, Russian Empire
Died: August 11, 1942

Sabina Spielrein was a Russian physician who also worked as a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and teacher during an illustrious professional career that spanned 30 years. A pioneer of psychoanalysis, Spielrein was the first person to bring in and popularize the concept of the death instinct. Sabina Spielrein was also one of the earliest psychoanalysts to study schizophrenia in detail. 

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Julienne Marie
(Actress)
Julienne Marie
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Birthdate: March 21, 1933
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Toledo, Ohio, United States
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
(Swiss-American Psychiatrist, a Pioneer in Near-Death Studies and Author of the Book ‘On Death and Dying')
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Birthdate: July 8, 1926
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Zurich, Switzerland
Died: August 24, 2004

Best known for her pathbreaking bestseller On Death and Dying, Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross also made pioneering research in areas such as near-death studies. Her five stages of grief, or the Kübler-Ross model, has been adopted by corporates to help employees deal with loss and change.

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Jean Tatlock
(Psychiatrist)
Jean Tatlock
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Birthdate: February 21, 1914
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Died: January 4, 1944
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Frances Cress Welsing
(Psychiatrist)
Frances Cress Welsing
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Birthdate: March 18, 1935
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Chicago
Died: January 2, 2016
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Nora Volkow
(Mexican-American Psychiatrist and Director of the ‘National Institute on Drug Abuse’)
Nora Volkow
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Birthdate: March 27, 1956
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico

Mexican-born Nora Volkow studied medicine in her country, before moving to New York University, where she became a Laughlin Fellow. Now the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, she was the first to prove that drug abuse is a brain disease. She was featured at TEDMED 2014.

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Suzanne Mallouk
(Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst and Painter)
Suzanne Mallouk
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Birthdate: September 10, 1960
Sun Sign: Virgo
Birthplace: Orangeville, Ontario, Canada

Suzanne Mallouk ran away from her Canada home and moved to New York, where she took up odd jobs to finance her art career. She supported a penniless Jean-Michel Basquiat grow into a wealthy artist and became a muse for his paintings. She later became a practicing psychiatrist.

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Marie Bashir
(Engineer, Psychiatrist, Physician, University teacher)
Marie Bashir
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Birthdate: December 1, 1930
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Narrandera

Marie Bashir created history when she became the first female governor of New South Wales. A doctor, too, she was initially associated with children’s hospitals and later focused on psychiatry. She also worked for the mentally ill and homeless people from the Aboriginal community of Australia.

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Margaret Mahler
(Physician)
Margaret Mahler
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Birthdate: May 10, 1897
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Sopron, Hungary
Died: October 2, 1985
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Elsa Cayat
(Psychiatrist)
Elsa Cayat
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Birthdate: March 9, 1960
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Sfax, Tunisia
Died: January 7, 2015
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Bluma Zeigarnik
(Lithuanian-Soviet Psychologist and Psychiatrist)
Bluma Zeigarnik
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Birthdate: November 9, 1901
Sun Sign: Scorpio
Birthplace: Prienai, Lithuania
Died: February 24, 1988

Born to a Jewish family in southern Lithuania that was well-respected among the community, Bluma Zeigarnik grew up to be a renowned psychologist. She is best remembered for discovering what is known as the Zeigarnik effect, or the phenomenon of remembering incomplete tasks better than complete ones.

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Tina Strobos
(Dutch Physician and Psychiatrist Known for Her Resistance Work During World War II)
Tina Strobos
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Birthdate: May 19, 1920
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: February 27, 2012

Tina Strobos was a Dutch psychiatrist and physician remembered for her resistance work during the Second World War. When she was still a student, Strobos helped rescue over 100 Jewish refugees. In 1989, Yad Vashem recognized her rescue work with the Righteous Among the Nations honor. For her medical work, Strobos was honored with the Elizabeth Blackwell Medal in 1998.

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Helene Deutsch
(Psychologist)
Helene Deutsch
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Birthdate: October 9, 1884
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Przemyśl, Poland
Died: March 29, 1982
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Leyla Hussein
(Psychotherapist)
Leyla Hussein
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Birthdate: 1980
Sun Sign: Libra
Birthplace: Somalia
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Lise Van Susteren
(Psychiatrist, Environmental Activist)
Lise Van Susteren
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Birthdate: March 7, 1951
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Appleton, Wisconsin, United States
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Sanda Rašković Ivić
(2nd President of the Democratic Party of Serbia)
Sanda Rašković Ivić
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Birthdate: January 8, 1956
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Zagreb, Croatia
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Massouda Jalal
(The First Afghan Woman to Run for the Office of the President in Afghanistan)
Massouda Jalal
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Birthdate: January 5, 1962
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Gulbahar, Karachi, Pakistan
Massouda Jalal is an Afghan politician who achieved popularity in 2002 when she became the first Afghan woman to run for the office of the president. She ran again for the president’s office in 2004 and inspired a generation of women to engage in public life in a society where women's role in politics was previously banned and considered unacceptable.
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Helen Flanders Dunbar
(Psychiatrist, Physician)
Helen Flanders Dunbar
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Birthdate: May 14, 1902
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: South Kent, Connecticut, United States
Died: August 21, 1959
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Samah Jabr
(Psychiatrist)
Samah Jabr
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Birthdate: August 8, 1976
Sun Sign: Leo
Birthplace: Jerusalem
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Ruth Mack Brunswick
(Psychiatrist)
Ruth Mack Brunswick
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Birthdate: February 17, 1897
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Died: January 24, 1946