Emanuel Miller (26 August 1892 – 29 July 1970) was a British psychiatrist. He is best known for his work onchild psychology.
Miller was born on 26 August 1892 into aLithuanian Jewish family inSpitalfields, London, and was educated atParmiter's School and theCity of London School. He enteredSt John's College, Cambridge in 1911, and later went to theLondon Hospital Medical College, gaining a medical diploma in 1918. He then took the Cambridge diploma of psychological medicine, in 1921.[1]
Miller founded a child guidance clinic, the first in the United Kingdom, at theJews Free School in 1927, which he ran with psychologistMeyer Fortes (later a prominent anthropologist) and Sybil Clement Brown. He later worked at theTavistock Clinic. DuringWorld War II he served in theRAMC, and helped form theCampaign for Mental Health. In later life he suffered from depression and severerheumatoid arthritis. He died on 29 July 1970.[1]
One of those who has been called "father of British child psychiatry", Miller shares the appellation withMichael Rutter andDonald Winnicott.[2][3][4][5]
Miller marriedBetty Spiro in 1933. The couple had a daughter, Sarah, and a son,Jonathan.[1]
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