Peter H Wolff

Biographic Data

ID1027162
NAMEPeter H Wolff
GIVEN NAMESPeter H
FAMILY NAMEWolff
SIGNATUREWOLFF P H
AFFILIATIONSBoston Children's Hospital
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS25
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX2

  • The Orphans of Eritrea

    Peter H Wolff, Gebremeskel FessehaARTICLEAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry2005References: 19

    The authors examined the emotional well-being, adaptability, and emotional distress of 10-13 year-old Eritrean war orphans cared for in 3 different social environments and 1 group of home-reared children using 2 scales of the Behavioral Assessment System for Children and informal interviews with the children. Orphans reunified with extended families had greater adaptive skills than institutional orphans but as many signs and symptoms of emotional…

  • Peter Wolff Responds

    Open AccessPeter H WolffARTICLEJournal of the American…1999

  • The Irrelevance of Infant Observations for Psychoanalysis

    Open AccessPeter H WolffARTICLEJournal of the American…1996Cited by: 20References: 33

    The current consensus among psychoanalysts holds that direct infant observations are one means for testing the developmental propositions of psychoanalytic theory; that the observations have already falsified some of the theory's basic propositions; and that they hold the key to a qualitatively different developmental theory of psychoanalysis. The consensus, although not universal, has motivated a wide range of research programs on early infancy,…

  • Individual and community responses to trauma and disaster

    Open AccessPeter H WolffARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1996

  • The Solomuna Orphanage

    Open AccessPeter H Wolff, Yemani Dawit et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine1995Cited by: 4References: 12

  • Rate and timing precision of motor coordination in developmental dyslexia

    Peter H Wolff, George F Michel et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology1990Cited by: 1References: 1

    Learning to read builds on the speech processes of the child at many levels (Denckla, 1979; Mann, 1986), and language impairment is one of the most common behavioral correlates of developmental dyslexia (Doehring, Trites, Patel, & Fiedorowicz, 1981; Jorm, 1979; Vellutino, 1978). Current dyslexia research therefore has emphasized the linguistic analysis of language deficits and has brought converging evidence to the effect that phonological proces…

  • Refugees

    Peter H Wolff, W R SmyserARTICLEThe International Journal of…1988

    Foreword Preface Introduction The Origins Protection Assistance The Organizations and the Structure The Traditional Refugees The Jet People Conclusions and Recommendations Notes Index

  • Alternative theories of development and their implications for studying the ontogeny of behavior and social adaptations

    Open AccessPeter H WolffARTICLEThe American Journal of…1986

  • Observations on Newborn Infants

    Peter H WolffARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine1959

    The findings of continuous systematic observations on 4 newborn infants were reported, with emphasis on motor patterns in sleep, on reactions to external stimulation, and on responses to need tension. A tentative explanation was presented that sought to relate the observed types of behavior to one another in terms of energy and threshold concepts. The various behavior forms were classified according to their sources and according to their presump…