Sidney Marshall Jourard was a Canadian psychologist, professor, and writer.
11 Facts About Sidney Jourard
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Sidney Jourard was best known as the author of the books The Transparent Self and Healthy Personality: An Approach From the Viewpoint of Humanistic Psychology, which was a synthesis of the concepts and techniques that humanistic psychologists utilized and built upon in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Sidney Jourard has written many other works, including essays, books, and lectures on growth as a human being.
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Sidney Marshall Jourard was born in 1926 in Mount Dennis, a neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Sidney Jourard was the son of Albert Louis Jourard and Anna Rubinoff Jourard, both Russian immigrants.
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Sidney Jourard graduated from the University of Toronto in 1947 and received a master's degree in 1949.
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Sidney Jourard began teaching at the University of Buffalo where he received his PhD in psychology.
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Sidney Jourard moved to Atlanta, Georgia and taught at Emory University, then moved to Birmingham, Alabama, where he taught at the University of Alabama.
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Sidney Jourard joined the Psychology Department in 1959, where he lectured and taught large sections of Introductory Psychology.
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Sidney Jourard had a private practice up until his death on December 2,1974.
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Sidney Jourard was working on his small sports car in his garage at his home when the jack slipped and brought about his accidental death.