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Josephine R. Hilgard
Born in Napoleon, she became a child psychologist and psychiatrist at Stanford. She described 'anniversary reactions' and did major work on hypnosis and pain control in children.
At a glance
- Born
- 1906-03-12
- Died
- 1989-05-16
- Education
- Smith College, Northampton, MA, to 1928, B.A.
- Yale University, New Haven, CT, to 1933, PhD, child psychology
- Stanford Medical School, Stanford, CA, to 1940, M.D.
- Known as
- Science, Psychiatrist, Women
- Organizations
- Stanford University School of Medicine
Life story
Josephine Hilgard was born March 12, 1906, in Napoleon, Ohio. She studied at Smith College, graduating in 1928, then earned a doctorate in child psychology at Yale in 1933.
She married psychologist Ernest Hilgard in 1931, and they had two children. She went on to earn a medical degree at Stanford in 1940 and trained as a psychoanalyst.
Her clinical work included posts in Chicago and at Chestnut Lodge in Maryland, later a children's clinic in San Francisco and a clinical professorship in psychiatry at Stanford.
She pointed out that some people fall ill at the anniversary of an important event, and she studied hypnosis as a way to ease pain, especially in children. She died in Palo Alto in 1989.
Timeline
- 1906-03-12: Born (Napoleon, OH) source
- 1928: Graduates from Smith College (Northampton, MA) source
- 1931: Marries Ernest Hilgard source
- 1933: Earns PhD in child psychology at Yale (New Haven, CT) source
- 1940: Earns M.D. at Stanford (Stanford, CA) source
- 1982: Receives the Bernard B. Raginsky Award source
- 1985: Receives the Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Excellence source
- 1989-05-16: Dies at age 83 (Palo Alto, CA) source
What Josephine is known for
- Described 'anniversary reactions' in psychiatry
- Research on hypnosis and pain relief in children
- Research on anniversary reactions
- Research on hypnosis and pain in children
Honors and things named for them
- Bernard B. Raginsky Award (1982)
- Benjamin Franklin Gold Medal for Excellence (1985)
Family
- husband: Ernest Hilgard
- son: Henry (b. 1936)
- daughter: Elizabeth Ann (b. 1944)
Ohio places
Where Josephine R. Hilgard was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.
- Born: Napoleon, Henry County ZIP 43545 · Napoleon · Henry County
Further reading
Sources
Confidence. Medium: the main facts were confirmed, but some details (often an address or ZIP code) were not.
- Wikipedia: Josephine Hilgard birth in Napoleon 1906, education, career, honors, death 1989