Beatrice Wright (psychologist)  Beatrice Ann Wright (born Beatrice Ann Posner December 16, 1917 – July 31, 2018) was an American psychologist known for her work in Rehabilitation psychology. She was the author of a seminal work on disability and psychology, Physical Disability—A Psychological Approach (1960) and its second edition retitled Physical Disability—A Psychosocial Approach (1983). Wright was born as Beatrice Ann Posner along with her twin brother Sidney in Richmond, New York on December 16, 1917. Wright's parents, Jerome and Sonia Posner, were Russian immigrants whose egalitarian and humanistic views would later impact her academic work. The family had a Jewish heritage which Wright reports did not profoundly impact her worldview or growing up years, however, her parents’ avid defense of equality and justice was likely impacted by this heritage. From her parents’ perspective there were two ways to resolve the tension which comes when injustice is present, “One way is to justify the situation. The other way is to do something about the injustice”. This would impact Wright who while in high school was expelled from the honors society for distributing leaflets in support of the janitors’ strike, though she would eventually be reinstated at her mother's demand. She died in July 2018 at the age of 100. Wright met her husband, Erik, while studying at Brooklyn College. They have three children. She turned 100 in December 2017. After graduating high school at the age of sixteen, Wright went to Brooklyn College where she studied psychology. At Brooklyn College Wright had the opportunity to learn from psychologists such as Solomon Asch and Abraham Maslow, even participating in their experiments. She graduated from Brooklyn College in 1938 and continued her education at the University of Iowa where she would eventually earn both her masters and PhD. At the University of Iowa she studied under the supervision of Kurt Lewin. After earning her PhD she taught at Swarthmore College. During World War II her husband was drafted which led to the family's relocation to California. Wright left her teaching position to be with him and began working in the United States Employment Service. She was given the task of administering the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scales and then finding employment for individuals with intellectual disabilities. It was here she would have her first genuine, direct exposure to people with disabilities; this experience would be what launched her into a lifetime of interest in and advocacy for people with disabilities. She worked at the United States Employment Service until 1946 when she left the workplace in order to raise her three children.