As a student of psychodynamic developmental neuroscience, Justine Giddens, is interested in how the brain and mind work together, specifically the conscious and unconscious motivations that make up the individual. As she traveled in Europe, she was able to capture moments that were meaningful, perhaps allowing people to interact with her photographs – whether on […]
For over forty years, beginning in 1919, Armin B. Hemberger served as the Medical School’s medical illustrator, creating thousands of anatomical and pathological drawings in support of research publications and teaching.
In his off hours, Hemberger was a talented artist, working from his studio at his home in Hamden, experimenting with a variety of media and […]
Erik Erikson was the pre-eminent American psychoanalyst in the middle of the last century. Building on the insights of Freud, he mapped the development of individuals across their full span of life. His investigated the detailed mechanisms by which we traverse eight stages of development by responding to challenges unique to each stage. He was […]
Gertrude van Wagenen, 1893-1978: Pioneer Reproductive Endocrinologist and Bibliophile
Gertrude van Wagenen became a member of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale in 1931. In 1935, she established a colony of rhesus monkeys at Yale for pioneering research in the then new area of reproductive endocrinology.
In the 1920s, Van Wagenen began to collect rare […]
