Dr. Sula Wolff, researcher and founder of the Association of Child Psychiatrists and Psychologists, was highlighted in the Edinburgh Evening News today. She passed away last September at the age of 85.Dr. Wolff was born in Germany in 1924. When the Nazi party rose to power, her family fled to Britain, where she was educated and practiced clinical psychiatry. In 1969 she wrote the classic Children Under Stress on how children and adolescents cope with stressors like new experiences and death. She was a strong advocate for children with autism, described by a friend as a "pioneer dissecting and rebuilding multiple complex 'pictures' of the different phenotypes from severe autism to the milder Asperger's syndrome."
You can read her mini-biography here.
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