Margaret Morgan Lawrence

Margaret Cornelia Morgan Lawrence (August 19, 1914 – December 4, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Her career began in 1948. 

Her work included clinical care, teaching, and research, particularly into the development of ego strength in inner-city families. She studied young children seen as "strong" by their teachers in Georgia and Mississippi.

Lawrence was chief of the Developmental Psychiatry Service for Infants and Children (and their families) at Harlem Hospital for 21 years, as well as associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, retiring in 1984.

Lawrence died on December 4, 2019 at a nursing home in Boston at the age of 105.RIP: Margaret Morgan Lawrence, lay champion of peace and reconciliation work, dies at 105

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