Robert Rutherford Holt (December 27, 1917 – April 10, 2024) was an American psychologist and peace activist who worked in psychoanalytic theory.

Life and career

Robert Rutherford Holt was born in

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, on December 27, 1917. He graduated from The Hill School in 1935. He received a BA in 1939 from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

, and MA in 1941 and a PhD in 1944, both from

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."Interview with Robert R. Holt by Carlo Bonomi". International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Volume 17, Issue 4, 2008. He directed the Research Center for Mental Health at

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

from 1953 to 1971 and retired from NYU as a professor of psychology emeritus in 1989. Holt received the

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in 1969. He died in

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, on April 10, 2024, at the age of 106.

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