Naomi Richman obituary

My aunt Naomi Richman, who has died aged 84, was a child psychiatrist and leader in the field of psychiatric epidemiology. She carried out many pioneering studies of emotional and behavioural disorders in pre-school children and was much published.

One of the first studies she carried out, while based at Great Ormond Street hospital, London, concerned the effects of bringing up young children in tower blocks. It involved tracking more than 700 three-year-olds to the age of eight, a method of study that had never been undertaken before.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2LIihCM