Papers of Betty Jean Lifton, 1950-2010.

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Papers of Betty Jean Lifton, 1950-2010.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/743411329

Collection includes correspondence, reviews, drafts, research materials, etc., relating to Lifton's writing; correspondence with adoptees and birth mothers; notes from Lifton's counseling sessions with adoptees; research files on adoption and adoptees; personal correspondence; audiotapes; etc.

61.42 linear ft. (61 cartons, 1 file box, 1 folio+ folder)

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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SNAC Resource ID: 8116680

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-....

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Lifton, Betty Jean, 19..-....

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Writer, adoptee, and adoption-reform advocate Betty Jean Lifton, was born June 11, 1926, in Staten Island, New York. Named Blanche Rosenblatt by her birth mother, Rae Rosenblatt, Lifton was renamed Betty Jean by her adoptive parents, Oscar and Hilda Kirschner. She received a BA in English from Barnard College in 1948 and a PhD in counseling psychology from the Union Institute in the 1990s. In 1952, she married Robert Jay Lifton, a writer and psychiatrist; they had two children, Kenn...

Korczak, Janusz, 1878-1942

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