Marvin Opler
Anthropologist, Academic
1914 – 1981
Who was Marvin Opler?
Marvin Kaufmann Opler was an American anthropologist and social psychiatrist. His brother Morris Edward Opler was also an anthropologist who studied the Southern Athabaskan peoples of North America. Morris and Marvin Opler were the sons of Austrian-born Arthur A. Opler, a merchant, and Fanny Coleman-Hass. Marvin Opler is best known for his work as a principal investigator in the Midtown Community Mental Health Research Study. This landmark study hinted at widespread stresses induced by urban life, as well as contributing to the development of the burgeoning field of social psychiatry in the 1950s.
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- Born
- Jun 13, 1914
Buffalo - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University at Buffalo
- Columbia University
- University of Michigan
- Lived in
- Buffalo
- Died
- Jan 3, 1981
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on July 23, 2013
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