Solomon Machover

Solomon Machover (May 23, 1906 - July 1, 1976)[1] was an American psychologist.

Career

As a young clinician at Bellevue Hospital, Machover collaborated with a small group of activists there (including his future wife Karen Alper) to found the Psychologists League. He was a member of the Communist Party caucus at Bellevue and became the first Chairman of the League. It was a Popular Front group with liberal, socialist and communist members that agitated for jobs and better treatment for psychologists [2] Machover became a full professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1961.[3] In 1971, Machover was the chief psychologist at Kings County Hospital Center.

Awards and honors

In 1948, Machover became a Fellow of the Society for Projective Techniques and Rorschach Institute, Inc.[4]

Personal life

In 1936, Machover married psychologist Karen Alper from Minsk, Belarus. They had a son, Robert Machover.[5]

References
  1. "Solomon Machover | July 1, 1976 Obituary". newspaperarchive.com. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
  2. Harris, B. (in press). "Down with Fascism, Up with Science": Activist Psychologists in the U.S., 1932-1941. History of Psychology.
  3. "8 Profs Upped At Med Center". New York Daily News. July 3, 1961. Retrieved 2018-11-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. "List of Members and Fellows of the Society for Projective Techniques and Rorschach Institute, Inc. as of December 1, 1950". Journal of Projective Techniques. 14 (4): 484–498. December 1, 1950. doi:10.1080/08853126.1950.10380351. ISSN 0885-3126.
  5. "Karen Machover, Psychologist, Dies at 93". The New York Times. January 28, 1996. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
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