Merit Hertzman-Ericson

Merit Kerstin Hertzman-Ericson, née Lundberg (4 February 1911 in Danderyd – 26 March 1998 in Saltsjöbaden) was a Swedish psychologist and author.

Merit Hertzman-Ericson was the daughter of construction engineer Ernst Lundberg and Astrid Svensson. She was the sister of actor Marianne Nielsen and aunt to actor Monica Nielsen. She was also a grandmother of actress Pernilla August and artist Anna Hertzman-Ericson.

After graduating in Stockholm in 1930, she continued at the Sorbonne University in Paris, after which she returned to Sweden, obtaining a B.A. in Stockholm in 1942 and PhL in 1946. She was a director at the New School School of 1942–1943, Clinical Psychologist at Stockholm Central for Psychic Children- and youth care from 1950, psychologist at the Stockholm City Children's Care Board, film censor for the Norwegian Film Agency. She was a secretary of the Swedish Association for Group Psychotherapy, board member of the Clinical Section at the Psychology Association.

She married in 1932 the engineer Bo Hertzman-Ericson (1903-1977). They had six children, the twins Li and Lo 1933, Tom in 1936, Kaj in 1940 and the second twins Vynn and Jann in 1945.

Publications

• The Child's Mental Development (1952)
• My Child is not Like Others (1954)
• Children are Children and What Children are Schoolers? (1956)
• Group Activities with Mothers in Mental Childcare and Youth Care (1958)