Merit Kerstin Hertzman-Ericson, née Lundberg (4 February 1911 in

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– 26 March 1998 in

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Sveriges Dödbok 1901–2009, DVD-ROM, Version 5.00, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2010).) was a Swedish psychologist and author. Hertzman-Ericson was the daughter of construction engineer Ernst Lundberg and Astrid Svensson.HERTZMAN-ERICSON, MERIT K, fil lic, psykolog, Saltsjöbaden
i Vem är Vem? / Stor-Stockholm 1962 / s 560. She was the sister of actress Marianne Nielsen and aunt to actress

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. She was also a grandmother of actress

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and artist Anna Hertzman-Ericson. After graduating in

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in 1930, she continued at the

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, after which she returned to Sweden, obtaining a

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in Stockholm in 1942 and PhL in 1946. She was a director at the New School School of 1942–1943, Clinical Psychologist at Stockholm Central for Psychic Children- and youth care from 1950, psychologist at the Stockholm City Children's Care Board, film censor for the Norwegian Film Agency. She was a secretary of the Swedish Association for Group Psychotherapy, board member of the Clinical Section at the Psychology Association. In 1932, she married the engineer Bo Hertzman-Ericson (1903–1977). They had six children.

Publications

*The Child's Mental Development (1952) *My Child is not Like Others (1954) *Children are Children and What Children are Schoolers? (1956) *Group Activities with Mothers in Mental Childcare and Youth Care (1958)

References

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