Solomon Machover


Solomon Machover was an American psychologist.

Career

As a young clinician at Bellevue Hospital, Machover collaborated with a small group of activists there to found the Psychologists League. He was a member of the Communist Party caucus at Bellevue and became the first Chairman of the League. It was a Popular Front group with liberal, socialist and communist members that agitated for jobs and better treatment for psychologists
Machover became a full professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in 1961. In 1971, Machover was the chief psychologist at Kings [County Hospital Center].

Awards and honors

In 1948, Machover became a Fellow of the Society for Projective Techniques and Rorschach Institute, Inc.

Personal life

In 1936, Machover married psychologist Karen Alper from Minsk, Belarus. They had a son, Robert Machover.