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Robert Coles, Pulitzer-Winning Child Psychiatrist, Is Dead at 97

7 June 2026 at 23:14
His five-volume “Children of Crisis” series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

© Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

Robert Coles eschewed ideologies and psychiatric orthodoxies to visit the homes of children — first in the American South and then around the world — to listen intently to what they had to say.
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