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Katherine Wolf

1907–1957

Also known as Katherine M. WolfKatherine Maria WolfKäthe Wolf

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Katharina WolfK. M. Wolf

Katherine (Käthe) Wolf was a Viennese child psychologist who studied philosophy at the University of Vienna and worked closely with Charlotte and Karl Bühler, helping to develop the Viennese baby tests and writing with Hildegard Durfee an early study of how institutional care affects infants. After emigrating to New York in 1941 she became René Spitz's collaborator in his research on hospitalism, anaclitic depression and the smiling response, helping with the observations and the statistical interpretation of the data.

Born: 1907
Died: 1957
Notable works: Anaclitic Depression: An Inquiry into the Genesis of Psychiatric Conditions in Early Childhood, II1946
The Smiling Response: A Contribution to the Ontogenesis of Social Relations1946

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René Spitz Wolf worked with Spitz on his infant studies of the 1940s, helping with the observations and the statistical treatment of the data, and co-wrote the papers on anaclitic depression and the smiling response.