DORIS KOTEEN SELDIN

1922 - 2015

SELDIN
DORIS KOTEEN, a clinical psychologist, professionally known as Dr. Doris K. Miller, died Sunday March 8, 2015 at the age of 93, of heart failure. Her son Timothy and his wife Peggy were at her side. She was the youngest of four children of Jewish emigrants who left Russia in 1905 and settled in Patterson, NJ. Originally a social worker for the Veterans Administration, she later earned her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from New York University in 1964. She was the consulting school psychologist at the Walden School in New York and then went into private practice. She was married twice, originally to Norman Miller and then in 1955 to Joel Seldin, a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. That marriage lasted until Joel's death in 1987. She raised two sons, Timothy and Alexander. Always a leftist political activist, Doris started with union organizing at the VA. She later was instrumental in founding the Society Against Nuclear Explosions (SANE) later taken over by Norman Cousins. She was also a founding member of Psycho-logists for Social Action. With her friend Alice Hoffman she was an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
She is survived by her son, Timothy, his wife Peggy and numerous nieces, nephews, grand nieces and grand nephews. She was a resident at the Quadrangle in Haverford, PA. A memorial service in her memory is being planned at the Quadrangle for May of this year.

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