Exie E. Welsch
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Exie E. Welsch (1908–1980) was an American psychiatrist specializing in child psychiatry.[1] She was the first woman elected president of the American Orthopsychiatric Association.[2]
Biography
[edit]Welsch was born in 1908. She graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine and completed specialty training under Adolph Meyer at Johns Hopkins University’s Phipps Psychiatric Clinic.[3] She practiced psychiatry in Manhattan for 35 years and held academic positions at New York Hospital, New York Medical College, and Columbia University.[3] She was board-certified in neurology, psychiatry, and child psychiatry, and served as an examiner for child psychiatry certification.[3] During the war years, Welsch moved to up-state New York to head the Rochester Guidance Center, one of the earliest multidisciplinary child guidance clinics.[4]
In her 1956 presidential address to the American Orthopsychiatric Association, Welsch advocated a broader medical perspective on mental illness that included neurological, physiological, and environmental considerations, contrasting with traditional psychoanalytic views.[3]
After undergoing a laryngectomy in 1974, Welsch learned esophageal speech, resumed medical practice, and co-founded the Organization for Women With Laryngectomies (OWLS). She died of cancer at age 72.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Indianapolis Times 21 January 1938 — Hoosier State Chronicles: Indiana's Digital Historic Newspaper Program". newspapers.library.in.gov.
- ^ "The Times from Trenton, New Jersey". Newspapers.com. July 7, 1960.
- ^ a b c d e "Dr. Exie E. Welsch, 72, Is Dead; Child Psychiatrist and a Teacher; Suffered Cancer of Larynx". New York Times. October 30, 1980.
- ^ Welsch, Exie E. (1945). "The Child and Detention". Bulletin (Child Welfare League of America, Inc.). 24 (8): 1–6 – via JSTOR.