Henriette R. Klein, M.D.

Dr. Klein received her B.A. from the University of Chicago and her M.D. from the University of Maryland. She trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Columbia's New York State Psychiatric Institute and Phipps Clinic at Johns Hopkins and in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating in 1940. She served on the faculties of the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of NY, Emory University, and the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and was a central figure at the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center.

Dr. Klein made important scientific contributions to the study of childhood schizophrenia, the psychology of pregnancy, and the psychodynamics of paranoia. She became the first woman trustee of the American Psychiatric Association, serving from 1970–71.