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Lauretta Bender (August 9, 1897 – January 4, 1987) was an American child neuropsychiatrist known for developing the Bender-Gestalt Test, a psychological test designed to evaluate visual-motor maturation in children.
The Bender-Gestalt test was originally developed in 1938 by child psychiatrist Lauretta Bender. [1] Additional versions were developed by other later practitioners, although adaptations designed as projective tests have been heavily criticized in the clinical literature due to their lack of psychometric validity. [2]
Lauretta Bender, a child neuropsychiatrist, was reported to have been practicing at the hospital between the 1950s and 1960s. In December 1977, one of Creedmoor's most notorious patients, former NYPD officer Robert Torsney, was committed to the hospital after being found not guilty by reason of insanity for the 1976 murder of then-15 year-old ...
In 1947, child neuropsychiatrist Lauretta Bender published a study on 98 children aged between four and eleven years old who had been treated in the previous five years with intensive courses of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). These children received ECT daily for a typical course of approximately twenty treatments. [38]
In 1942, Lauretta Bender described the condition of childhood schizophrenia as a "definite syndrome", a "pathology at every level and in every field of integration within the functioning of the central nervous system". [138]
The surname Bender derives from both English and German origin. In England, it derives from old Benden or Benbow . In Germany, it is a form of Fassbinder or Fassbender ( Cooper ).
The daughter of Bob Lee, the tech executive whose fatal stabbing nearly two years ago sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and stoked debate about violent crime in San Francisco, said she felt ...
[18] [19] [20] In November 1940, Lauretta Bender and Paul Schilder published a paper focused on the topic. [21] Bender and Schilder's contemporaries like Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner also wrote about the matter, which was important to the development of autism awareness. [22]