Eleanor Galenson was born in the Bronx on Oct. 28, 1916, one of two children of Louis and Libby Galenson.
She graduated from Barnard in 1936 and was one of the first women to attend the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which she received a medical degree in 1940. She went on to train as a psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating in 1950.
Eleanor Galenson was born in the Bronx on October 28, 1916, one of two children of Louis and Libby Galenson. She graduated from Barnard in 1936 and was one of the first women to attend the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, from which she received a medical degree in 1940. She went on to train as a psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, graduating in 1950.
Research was only a part of Dr. Galenson’s work. For many years she directed therapeutic nurseries at Mount Sinai and the Albert Einstein Medical Center. She also helped create clinics for troubled children in East Harlem and the Bronx. She was a founder of the World Association for Infant Psychiatry, now called the World Association for Infant Mental Health.
Dr. Galenson’s husband, Leonard Weinroth, died in 1988. Her first husband, Aaron Himmelstein, died in 1959. Besides her son Paul, she is survived by another son, David Himmelstein, and two grandchildren.
