Kathleen Todd
| Kathleen Todd | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Kathleen Mary Gertrude Todd 19 November 1898 Heriot, New Zealand |
| Died | 22 March 1968 (aged 69) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Parent(s) |
Charles Todd Mary Hegarty |
| Relatives |
Charles Todd (father) Charles P. Todd (brother) Desmond Todd (brother) Moyra Todd (sister) Bryan Todd (brother) Andrew Todd (brother) Sheila Todd (sister) John Todd (nephew) |
Kathleen Mary Gertrude Todd (19 November 1898 – 21 March 1968) was a pioneering New Zealand child psychiatrist.
Kathleen Todd was born in 1898 in Heriot, Otago. She was one of the seven children of Charles Todd, an auctioneer and who founded the firm that became the Todd Corporation, and his wife Mary Hegarty. Kathleen was educated at St Dominic’s College, Dunedin of which she was dux in 1915. She proceeded to the University of Otago to study medicine graduating (M.B.Ch.B) UNZ in 1923. She obtained junior medical positions, but for women doctors professional options were limited in New Zealand at that time. She carried out further studies in Vienna and London hospitals and did further courses in Boston and Oakland, California in psychological medicine. She obtained a Diploma in Psychological Medicine (DPM) in London.
Todd returned to New Zealand in 1930 and for five years she headed the psychological clinic at the Auckland Mental Hospital, Avondale. In 1935 she commenced studies at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, and at the , both leading centres of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. Todd increasingly worked in child guidance clinics, where multi-disciplinary teams of specialists diagnosed and treated children who had mild emotional and behavioural problems, and also their parents. She was appointed assistant director of the child guidance department at West End Hospital and became a staff member at the Tavistock Clinic and at the psychological clinic at Hill End Hospital. In 1941 she became director of the London Child Guidance Clinic and Training Centre. She wrote the influential Child treatment and the therapy of play with Lydia Jackson. Published in 1946, it was aimed at professionals and parents and became a best seller. In 1947 she contributed a section on the child guidance clinic to the practitioner handbook Child health and development . Todd became a Member of the British Psychological Society in 1938 and a Fellow in 1942; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1941; a Member of the Royal Medico Psychological Association in 1943.
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