Merit Hertzman-Ericson

Merit Kerstin Hertzman-Ericson, née Lundberg was a Swedish psychologist and author.
Hertzman-Ericson was the daughter of construction engineer Ernst Lundberg and Astrid Svensson. She was the sister of actress Marianne Nielsen and aunt to actress Monica Nielsen. She was also a grandmother of actress Pernilla August and artist Anna Hertzman-Ericson.
After graduating in Stockholm in 1930, Hertzman-Ericson continued at the Sorbonne University in Paris, after which she returned to Sweden, obtaining a B.A. in Stockholm in 1942 and PhL in 1946. She was a director at the New School School of 1942–1943, Clinical Psychologist at Stockholm Central for Psychic Children- and youth care from 1950, psychologist at the Stockholm City Children's Care Board, film censor for the Norwegian Film Agency. She was a secretary of the Swedish Association for Group Psychotherapy, board member of the Clinical Section at the Psychology Association.
In 1932, Hertzman-Ericson married engineer Bo Hertzman-Ericson. The marriage produced six children. Bo Hertzman-Ericson died in 1977.
Hertzman-Ericson died on 26 March 1998, aged 87.

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