Clara Thompson

Clara Mabel Thompson (1893 to 1958) was a prominent American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, born in Providence, Rhode Island, who died in New York City. She was a co-founder of the William Alanson White Institute in New York. She published articles and books about psychoanalysis as a whole and wrote specifically about the psychology of women. The atlas records her among the psychoanalysts and psychotherapists of the twentieth century, as a clinician and writer whose institutional work in helping to found the White Institute stands alongside her publications. The source article used here is brief, so this entry states only what it supports.