Benjamin Wolman

Benjamin B. Wolman (October 27, 1908 – January 3, 2000) was a Polish-American psychologist and writer.

Wolman obtained a Ph.D. in psychology in 1935 from the University of Warsaw. He later emigrated to the United States. He worked as a lecturer at Columbia University and a Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University. From 1958–1962 he worked as a clinical lecturer in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. From 1965-1978 he worked as Professor of Psychology at Long Island University.[1]

He founded the International Organization for the Study of Group Tensions and the International Journal of Group Tensions.[2]

Wolman was the editor or writer of 42 books in psychology and over 200 scientific papers, he was a practitioner of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.[3][4]

Selected publications

References

  1. Denmark, Florence L; Krauss, Herbert H. (2002). Benjamin B. Wolman: A Man of Vision (October 27, 1908–January 3, 2000). International Journal of Group Tensions. 31: 1-4.
  2. Denmark, Florence L; Krauss, Herbert H. (2001). Obituary: Benjamin B. Wolman (1908-2000). American Psychologist 56: 1047.
  3. Adler, Leonore Loeb; Denmark, Florence. (1995). Violence and the Prevention of Violence. Praeger Publishers. p. 217. ISBN 0-275-94873-0
  4. "Antisocial Behavior: Personality Disorders from Hostility to Homicide". Prometheus Books.
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