Mary V. Seeman
{{Short description|Canadian psychiatrist (1935–2024)}}
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Mary V. Seeman (March 24, 1935 – April 23, 2024) was a Canadian psychiatrist who was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.{{Cite web|url=https://ims.utoronto.ca/faculty/faculty-online-community/faculty-members/seemanmaryv/|title=Mary V. Seeman {{!}}|website=ims.utoronto.ca|access-date=2019-07-25}} She served as the Tapscott Chair in Schizophrenia from 1997 to 2000.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tapscottchair.com/history-behind-the-tapscott-chair/mary-v-seeman/|title=Mary V Seeman, M.D. {{!}} Tapscott Chair|date=27 April 2013 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-27}}
Seeman wrote on gender influences on outcome in schizophrenia,{{Cite journal|last=Seeman|first=Mary V.|date=2019-03-01|title=Does Gender Influence Outcome in Schizophrenia?|journal=Psychiatric Quarterly|language=en|volume=90|issue=1|pages=173–184|doi=10.1007/s11126-018-9619-y|pmid=30484001|s2cid=53759697|issn=1573-6709}} women in schizophrenia,{{Cite journal|last1=Brzezinski-Sinai|first1=Noa A|last2=Seeman|first2=Mary V|date=2017-03-30|title=Women and schizophrenia: planning for the future|journal=Future Neurology|volume=12|issue=2|pages=89–99|doi=10.2217/fnl-2016-0031|issn=1479-6708}} and the impact of parenting with a mental illness.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zjjCQAAQBAJ&q=info:tK7rPWN_hpEJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA365|title=Parental Psychiatric Disorder: Distressed Parents and their Families|last1=Reupert|first1=Andrea|last2=Maybery|first2=Darryl|last3=Nicholson|first3=Joanne|last4=Göpfert|first4=Michael|last5=Seeman|first5=Mary V.|date=2015-07-09|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107070684|language=en}}
Recognition
Seeman became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in 1972, and was appointed Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) in 2006.{{cite web |title=Mrs. Mary V. Seeman |url=https://gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-7363 |website=Governor-General of Canada |access-date=1 May 2024}} In 2012 she received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.{{cite web |title=Mary V. Seeman |url=https://gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/126-104613 |website=Governor-General of Canada |access-date=1 May 2024}}
Personal life
As a child, Seeman fled Nazi-occupied Poland with her family via Portugal and settled in Canada.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zre3qKpRTBs&t=2s Mary Seeman, I Remember], Exiles Memorial Centre
She was married to scientist Philip Seeman.{{cite news |title=Most Wikipedia profiles are about men - these women in Australia are hoping to change that |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/most-wikipedia-profiles-are-about-men-these-women-in-australia-are-hoping-to-change-that |access-date=27 July 2019 |work=SBS News |language=en}} Together, they were parents to Marc, Bob, and Neil Seeman, and grandparents to Ahron, Geoff, Ciara, David, Ronan, and Dori.
Mary V. Seeman died on April 23, 2024, at the age of 89."[https://psychiatry.utoronto.ca/news/memoriam-dr-mary-v-seeman In Memoriam: Dr. Mary V. Seeman]", University of Toronto. Retrieved April 25, 2024.
Publications
=Books=
- {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2zjjCQAAQBAJ&q=info:tK7rPWN_hpEJ:scholar.google.com&pg=PA365|title=Parental Psychiatric Disorder: Distressed Parents and their Families|last1=Reupert|first1=A | last2=Maybery | first2=D | last3=Nicholson|first3=J|last4 =Göpfert|first4=M| last5=Seeman|first5=M V.|date=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781107070684|language=en}}
- {{Cite book|title=Living and working with schizophrenia|date=1982|publisher=University of Toronto Press|last=Seeman, M.V.|isbn=0802064744|location=Toronto|oclc=9039169}}
- {{Cite book|title=Gender and psychopathology|date=1995|publisher=American Psychiatric Press|last=Seeman, M. V. |isbn=0880485647|edition= 1st|location=Washington, DC|oclc = 32051439}} [https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/38548099 Trove]
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