Lightner Witmer

Lightner Witmer ( born June 28, 1867 in Philadelphia, † July 19, 1956 ) was an American psychologist and a pioneer of the psychological parent counseling.

Life

Witmer was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he 1896, the first psychological clinic founded. It dealt with counseling, therapy and rehabilitation, and is considered a model of the later Child Guidance Clinics. 1897 Witmer founded the journal Psychological Clinic.

Swell

• Werner F. Bonin: The great psychologist. From the psychology of behavioral science; Researchers, therapists and physicians ( Hermes lexicon ). Econ paperback publisher, Dusseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-612-10026-2.