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Tamara Dembo's European years: Working with Lewin and Buytendijk
Author(s) -
Van der Veer René
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6696(200021)36:2<109::aid-jhbs1>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - psychology , sociology , psychoanalysis , epistemology , philosophy
In this paper early work of the American rehabilitation psychologist Tamara Dembo (1902–1993) is brought to light. She was highly influenced by the concepts of Kurt Lewin's topological psychology, and she used the framework of topological psychology to analyze her investigations on animal behavior carried out with the Dutch zoopsychologist Frederik J. J. Buytendijk. These investigations have so far been ignored and are being described for the first time making use of archival materials. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.