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Maria Orwid
Introduction
1930–2009, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and family therapist. Founder of Polish adolescent psychiatry, family psychiatry, and family therapy.
Born in the small Gallitzin town of Przemyśl as an only child of a lawyer Dr. Adolf Pfefer and his wife, Klara Weinstock, she survived the Holocaust in Przemysl ghetto and on “Aryan documents” in Lwów. Since 1945, adopted by her widowed mother’s second husband, Dr. Daniel Orwid, she lived in Krakow.
Advised by Stanisław Lem, a physician known to the world as a science-fiction writer, she entered the Jagiellonian University medical school intending to become a psychiatrist.
Career
Maria Orwid graduated in 1954 to continue postgraduate studies at the Department of Psychiatry in the same university. Her tutors formally were Eugeniusz Brzezicki and later Karol Spett, but her true teacher was Antoni Kepiński. In late 1950s, she joined Kępiński’s research team studying problems of former Auschwitz Concentration Camp...
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Bomba, J., Józefik, B., de Barbaro, B. (2019). Orwid, Maria. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_948
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