Ingrid Gifford

Ingrid Gifford

Dr. Ingrid Gifford was born in 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden. The youngest in a non-religious Viennese Jewish family, she was the only one who could emigrate to the United States on the Swedish quota in 1940. She completed her medical education at the University of California, interned at Women and Children's Hospital in New York and took her psychiatric residency at Bellevue. She and her husband Sanford Gifford settled in Boston after the war and both graduated from the BPSI in 1954. Unlike many colleagues who pursued academic careers, she preferred the solo practice of psychoanalysis and analytically-oriented psychotherapy. She served on the Institute Analysis Committee for many years.