Terttu Arajärvi
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Died22 January 2014 (aged 91)
Helsinki, Finland
Occupation(s)Psychiatrist, professor
Children4, incl. Pentti Arajärvi
Terttu Arajärvi | |
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| Born | Terttu Marjatta Hanhilammi[1] 2 June 1922 |
| Died | 22 January 2014 (aged 91) Helsinki, Finland |
| Occupation(s) | Psychiatrist, professor |
| Children | 4, incl. Pentti Arajärvi |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Helsinki |
| Thesis | Microscopic investigations into the capillaries of newborn, especially premature infants (1953) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Psychiatry |
| Sub-discipline | Child and adolescent psychiatry |
| Institutions | University of Helsinki |
Terttu Arajärvi (née Hanhilammi; 2 June 1922 – 22 January 2014)[2] was a Finnish paediatrician, notable as a pioneer and the first professor of child psychiatry in Finland.[3][4]
Arajärvi graduated from the University of Helsinki school of medicine in 1944 specialising in paediatrics. She obtained her licenciate in 1948, and doctorate in medicine and surgery in 1953 with a thesis titled Microscopic investigations into the capillaries of newborn, especially premature infants.[1]
However, she failed to secure a paediatrics post at the university, which she herself attributed to being a woman, and consequently decided to retrain in the emerging field of child psychiatry instead.[4]
