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Peggy Papp (born Peggy Marie Bennion; February 20, 1923, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States – November 13, 2021, New York, New York, United States) was an American family therapist and pioneered research evaluating the role gender plays in depression.

Early Life and Education
Papp was born as Peggy Marie Bennion in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Vera Weiler Bennion and Heber Bennion Jr., a rancher and politician. Her parents were Mormon homesteaders.

Papp spent her childhood in Manila, UT on her parents' ranch.

She graduated from the University of Utah in 1950 with degrees in Journalism and Drama.

Theater
Growing up, Papp fell in love with the theater and moved to Hollywood at 18 to begin her career. She freelanced for movie magazines, leading to a series called "I Had a Date With..." through which she wrote about dates she had with Hollywood's most prominent men, including Burt Lancaster, Rex Harrison, and Peter Lawford.

Personal Life
Papp met and married Joseph Papp, an American producer and director, while performing in Death of a Salesman in New York in 1951. Together, they had a son, Anthony Papp, and a daughter Miranda Papp Adani.

Work and Publications
Papp's most known publication is her collaboration on The Women's Project with Betty Carter, Olga Silverstein, and Marianne Walters

Author of The Process of Change. Co-author of The Invisible Web: Gender Patterns in Family Relationships. Editor of Couples on the Fault Line: New Directions for Therapists

She was a senior faculty member of the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York City. Papp founded and directed a new model for treating adolescents that focused on family relationships. She also founded the Gender and Depression Project that highlighted the differences in gender on couple's relationship dynamics. This project resulted in insights into the different reasons men and women develop depression.

"Men and women get depressed for different reasons, cope differently, and the caretaking of a depressed spouse is different depending on whether the non-depressed spouse is a husband or wife," - Peggy Papp

Papp has presented her work in all 50 states and in Europe, Japan, Argentina, Israel, Russia, Hong Kong, and Turkey.

Recognitions
Papp received the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 and the University of Utah Distinguished Alumni Award