Maria Orwid (23 July 1930 – 9 February 2009) was a

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psychiatrist A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...

and pioneer of Child and Family

psychiatry Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and perceptions. See glossary of psychiatry. Initial psych ...

and of

Family therapy Family therapy (also referred to as family counseling, family systems therapy, marriage and family therapy, couple and family therapy) is a branch of psychology and clinical social work that works with families and couples in intimate relationsh ...

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. She was a professor of the

Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ...

. As a survivor of the

Holocaust The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; a ...

, she contributed to the literature.Bomba, Jacek and Orwid, Maria. "A Psychiatric Study of World War II Survivors," in Jolande Withuis, Annet Mooij (eds.), ''The Politics of War Trauma: The Aftermath of World War II in Eleven European Countries'', Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

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1930 births 2009 deaths Child psychiatrists Developmental psychologists Family therapists Academic staff of Jagiellonian University 20th-century Polish Jews Jewish physicians Psychiatrists Polish women psychiatrists Polish psychiatrists 20th-century Polish women physicians {{psychiatrist-stub