Sula Wolff

Sula Wolff
Born 1 March 1924
Berlin, Weimar Germany
Died 21 September 2009(2009-09-21) (aged 85)
United Kingdom
Alma mater Oxford University
Occupation Child psychiatrist, author
Spouse(s) Henry Walton[1]

Sula Wolff (1 March 1924 – 21 September 2009) was a prominent British child psychiatrist. Her work focused mainly on a group of socially withdrawn, eccentric and schizoid children which she followed for over 20 years.[2]

In 1996 she translated a landmark paper by Grunya Sukhareva which may be the earliest description of autistic symptoms in children.[3]

Life

She was born in Berlin, Weimar Germany in 1924. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 she and her family moved to the United Kingdom.[1] She graduated in Medicine from Oxford University in 1947.

At the Maudsley Hospital where she acquired a post-graduate training in psychiatry she became interested in the psychological problems of children. After the Maudsley Hospital she practised in Cape Town and in New York. She married Henry Walton, a South African psychiatrist. They settled in Edinburgh where Walton became Professor of Psychiatry and she, in 1966, became a consultant psychiatrist at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. She published Children under Stress in 1969.

Books

  • Children Under Stress Penguin Press: London (1969). ISBN 9780140136449.
  • Loners: the Life Path of Unusual Children: Routledge: London (1995). ISBN 978-0-415-06665-5.

References

  1. 1 2 Graham, Philip (22 October 2009). "Sula Wolff obituary". The Guardian.
  2. ↑ Sula Wolff (1995). Loners - The Life Path of Unusual Children. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-06665--5.
  3. ↑ Wolff, S. (1996). "The first account of the syndrome Asperger described? Translation of a paper entitled "Die schizoiden Psychopathien im Kindesalter" by Dr. G. E. Ssucharewa; scientific assistant, which appeared in 1926 in the Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie 60:235-261". European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 5 (3): 119–132. doi:10.1007/bf00571671. PMID 8908418.
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