Eleanor Galenson, Expert on Children's Sexuality, Dies at 94

Dr. Galenson was a professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Mount Sinai Medical Center in  New York. Read the New York Times obituary here. Dr. Galenson and a colleague, after observing and documenting the actions of infants, concluded that children make the discovery of genital difference between the ages of 15 to 19 months. Freud had postulated 4 to 5 years old.

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