Historic Women in American Mental Health
Dorthea Lynde Dix
1802 – 1887
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dorothea-dix
“This feeble and depressed old man, a pauper, helpless, lonely, and yet conscious of surrounding circumstances, and not now wholly oblivious of the past—this feeble old man, who was he?”
Mary Whiton Calkins
1863 – 1930
https://www.apa.org/about/governance/president/bio-mary-whiton-calkins
“The student trained to reach decisions in the light of logic and of history will be disposed to recognize that, in a democratic country, governed as this is by the suffrage of its citizens, and given over as this is to the principle and practice of educating women, a distinction based on difference of sex is artificial and illogical.”
Martha E. Bernal, PhD
1931 – 2001
https://feministvoices.com/profiles/martha-bernal
“However critical I might be of this country, I have felt grateful for the opportunities of which I availed myself.”
Kitch Childs, PhD
1937 – 1993
https://feministvoices.com/exhibits/e-kitch-childs
“We must generate a systematic method for conflict resolution so as to lose none of the power of our anger in useless wheel spinning… By so doing we may amplify and augment sisterly cooperation, understanding and in the meantime enhance our self empowerment.”
Bebe Moore Campbell
1950 – 2006
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bebe-Moore-Campbell
“As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.”
Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD
1917 – 1983
https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/clark
“I think that whites and blacks should be taught to respect their fellow human beings as an integral part of being educated.”