Haimowitz, Natalie Reader 1923–2005

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born May 27, 1923, in New York, NY; died of temporal lobe dementia, September 4, 2005, in Oakland, CA. Psychologist, educator, and author. Haimowitz was a psychologist in private practice who was a respected therapist and author of textbooks. She did her undergraduate work at Brooklyn College and earned her B.A. in 1944. For her master's degree, she went to Ohio State University; she then completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1948. During the 1940s, she worked at various jobs, including as a research assistant for the Committee on Human Development and as a lecturer at Brooklyn College. After finishing her doctorate, she spent two years as a trainee at the U.S. Veterans Administration's Mental Hygiene Clinic in Chicago, and for the next five years, she taught psychology at the University of Chicago. Establishing a private practice in Evanston, Illinois, in 1950, she continued to work at the university until 1958 and was chief psychologist at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Chicago during the late 1950s. From 1960 to 1964 she also worked for Milwaukee's Psychiatric Services before concentrating full time on her private practice. Haimowitz was known as a gifted therapist who was an expert on Rorschach inkblot tests, Gestalt therapy, and transactional analysis (the analysis of how people interact with each other). She also penned several psychology textbooks. With her husband, Morris Haimowitz, she wrote Human Development (1960; revised edition, 1973) and Suffering Is Optional (1976), and she also wrote the solo work Success in Psychotherapy (1987).

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Chicago Tribune, September 8, 2005, Section 3, p. 9.

ONLINE

European Association for Transactional Analysis Web site, http://www.eatanews.com/ (October 1, 2005).