Emanuel Miller (26 August 1892 – 29 July 1970) was a British psychiatrist. He is best known for his work on

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Life

Miller was born on 26 August 1892 into a

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family in

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, London, and was educated at Parmiter's School and the City of London School. He entered

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in 1911, and later went to the

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, gaining a medical diploma in 1918. He then took the Cambridge diploma of psychological medicine, in 1921. Miller founded a child guidance clinic, the first in the United Kingdom, at the

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in 1927, which he ran with psychologist Meyer Fortes (later a prominent anthropologist) and Sybil Clement Brown. He later worked at the

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. During World War II he served in the RAMC, and helped form the Campaign for Mental Health. In later life he suffered from depression and severe rheumatoid arthritis. He died on 29 July 1970. One of those who has been called "father of British child psychiatry", Miller shares the appellation with Michael Rutter and

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Family

Miller married Betty Spiro in 1933. The couple had a daughter, Sarah, and a son,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Miller, Emanuel 1892 births 1970 deaths British child psychiatrists 20th-century British medical doctors British psychiatrists Alumni of the London Hospital Medical College Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge English Jews English people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Jewish psychiatrists People educated at the City of London School People educated at Parmiter's School, Garston People from Spitalfields British Army personnel of World War II

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