Judith Kestenberg

Judith Kestenberg, MD
Born	March 17, 1910 Tarnów, Poland
Died	January 16, 1999
Education	MD University of Vienna
Occupation	Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Notable work	Sexuality, Body Movement and the Rhythms of Development (Aronson, 1995); The Last Witness: The Child Survivor of the Holocaust (American Psychiatric Press, 1996), Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspective on the Interview Process (Greenwood, 1994).
Spouse(s)	Milton Kestenberg (1913-1991)
Children	Howard Kestenberg Dr. Janet Kestenberg Amgihi

Howard Kestenberg

Judith Ida Kestenberg (née Silberpfennig; 17 March 1910 in Tarnów, Poland – 16 January 1999 in Sands Point, New York) was a child psychiatrist who worked with Holocaust survivors. She founded the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children (ISOPC) an organization that coordinated the psyologically informed interviews of over 1500 child survivors throughout much of the world. She was also the lead creator of the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP), used to create a psychological profile based exclusively on movement patterns.

Kesteneberg grew up in a wealthy Jewish industrialist family in Krakow, who moved in 1924 from Poland to Vienna in 1924. She studied medicine at the University of Vienna and specialized in neurology and psychiatry. After receiving her doctorate in 1934 she began training at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, and in 1937 undertook a training analysis with Eduard Hitschmann. Concerned with the persecution of the Socialist Party of which she was a member, and interested in continuing her studies, Kestenberg emigrated in 1937 to New York City, where she worked with Paul Ferdinand Schilder at Bellevue Hospital in child psychiatry. For her psychoanalytic training Kestenberg studied at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and continued with Hermann Nunberg, who had also emigrated to escape the Anschluss. In 1943 she became a member and training analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.

In 1942, Kestenberg married the lawyer Milton Kestenberg (1913-1991), who had left Poland in 1939. They had two children. She was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine and also worked at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. Kestenberg has published seven books and over 150 journal articles.

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