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Professor Daisy Schalling
Person. individ. Drj Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 921, 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All tights reserved Printed in Great Britain 0191-8869197 $17.00+0.00
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OBITUARY
PROFESSOR
DAISY SCHALLING
Professor Daisy Schalling died at the beginning of May this year. She was 73 years old. With her, a central pioneer work, within the area of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and psychological personality research, has ended. Daisy Schalling’s interest for personality and its underlying neurobiological basis characterized her comprehensive research career. Her assumptions of connections between frontal lobe functioning, transmitter systems, and personality traits were in the forefront of research. The relevance of her assumptions have currently received strong support in studies using new techniques, like neuroimaging techniques. Her most important work included a personality analysis of psychopathy, defined by the Cleckley criteria. She worked in close collaboration with Robert Hare, the foremost investigator in that field. Her specific interests involved neuropsychological signs of hemispheric asymmetry with regard to competence and brain activation, studied in relation to psychopathology, handedness, and sex differences; and the phenomenon of alexithymia traits and the availability of semantic systems in psychopaths. Daisy was brilliant as researcher and mentor, with intensity, wit, and generosity. She developed a large net of contacts all over the world, with collaborators in France, U.S.A., Canada, Spain, and Great Britain. Daisy was a colleague to admire and to respect-and she will stay with us in our thoughts.. . . Britt af Klinteberg
My memory of Daisy is still vivid: a vibrant, lively, happy, warm woman with a lilting voice and a musical laugh. From the first time I met her she destroyed my stereotype of the reserved and introverted Scandinavian derived from the old Bergman films and a limited sample of colleagues. Daisy was an accomplished researcher in the psychobiology of personality and psychopathy, and the creator of a widely used instrument for these kinds of studies: the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). She was one of the first to explore the relationships between brain amines, their metabolites and enzymes, and dimensions of normal personality. Her modesty about her prominence in the field was admirable, but frustrating to those like myself who wanted her to stand for president of our society (ISSID). She was reluctant to publish data without sufficient replication, a proper scientific caution that deters few of us but perhaps should. We will remember her for her own accomplishments and through her students and colleagues like Britt af Klinteberg and Lars von Knorring, who carry her work forward. Those of us who had the good fortune to know her personally will also remember her for her humaneness, hospitality and kindness as a treasured friend and colleague. Marvin Zuckerman
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Pergamon
OBITUARY
PROFESSOR
DAISY SCHALLING
Professor Daisy Schalling died at the beginning of May this year. She was 73 years old. With her, a central pioneer work, within the area of neuropsychology, clinical psychology, and psychological personality research, has ended. Daisy Schalling’s interest for personality and its underlying neurobiological basis characterized her comprehensive research career. Her assumptions of connections between frontal lobe functioning, transmitter systems, and personality traits were in the forefront of research. The relevance of her assumptions have currently received strong support in studies using new techniques, like neuroimaging techniques. Her most important work included a personality analysis of psychopathy, defined by the Cleckley criteria. She worked in close collaboration with Robert Hare, the foremost investigator in that field. Her specific interests involved neuropsychological signs of hemispheric asymmetry with regard to competence and brain activation, studied in relation to psychopathology, handedness, and sex differences; and the phenomenon of alexithymia traits and the availability of semantic systems in psychopaths. Daisy was brilliant as researcher and mentor, with intensity, wit, and generosity. She developed a large net of contacts all over the world, with collaborators in France, U.S.A., Canada, Spain, and Great Britain. Daisy was a colleague to admire and to respect-and she will stay with us in our thoughts.. . . Britt af Klinteberg
My memory of Daisy is still vivid: a vibrant, lively, happy, warm woman with a lilting voice and a musical laugh. From the first time I met her she destroyed my stereotype of the reserved and introverted Scandinavian derived from the old Bergman films and a limited sample of colleagues. Daisy was an accomplished researcher in the psychobiology of personality and psychopathy, and the creator of a widely used instrument for these kinds of studies: the Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP). She was one of the first to explore the relationships between brain amines, their metabolites and enzymes, and dimensions of normal personality. Her modesty about her prominence in the field was admirable, but frustrating to those like myself who wanted her to stand for president of our society (ISSID). She was reluctant to publish data without sufficient replication, a proper scientific caution that deters few of us but perhaps should. We will remember her for her own accomplishments and through her students and colleagues like Britt af Klinteberg and Lars von Knorring, who carry her work forward. Those of us who had the good fortune to know her personally will also remember her for her humaneness, hospitality and kindness as a treasured friend and colleague. Marvin Zuckerman
921