Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch | |
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 Biography of Helene Deutsch | |
| Born | 9 October 1884 |
| Died | 29 March 1982 (age 97) |
| Nationality | Poland |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater | University of Vienna |
| Known for | Psychology of women, Adolescent psychology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychoanalysis |
| Institutions | University of Vienna, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Psychoanalytic Society |
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Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach) (October 9, 1884 – March 29, 1982) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women.
Life
She was born in Przemyśl, then Austrian Galicia. Her father had been educated in German, but Helene (Rosenbach) was sent to private, Polish language schools. Her love of Polish literature continued throughout her life and she identified intensely with Poland and insisted on her Polish national identity.
Deutsch studied medicine and psychiatry in Vienna and Munich, before she became a pupil of Freud. As his assistant she was the first woman to concern herself with the psychology of women. In 1912 she married Dr Felix Deutsch, and after a number of miscarriages they eventually conceived a son, Martin. In 1935 she fled Germany, immigrating to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Her husband and son joined her a year later, and she worked there as a well-regarded psychoanalyst up until her death in Cambridge in 1982.
Published works
- Psychoanalysis of the Sexual Functions of Women 1925, translated to English in 1991, ISBN 978-0-946439-95-9.
- The Psychology of Women, Volume 1: Girlhood, Allyn & Bacon, 1943, ISBN 978-0-205-10087-3.
- The Psychology of Women, Volume 2: Motherhood, Allyn & Bacon, 1945, ISBN 978-0-205-10088-0.
- Neuroses and Character Types, International Universities Press, 1965, ISBN 0-8236-3560-0 .
- Selected Problems of Adolescence, International Universities Press, 1967, ISBN 0-8236-6040-0.
- A Psychoanalytic Study of the Myth of Dionysus and Apollo, 1969, ISBN 0-8236-4975-X .
- Confrontations with Myself, Norton, 1973, ISBN 978-0-393-07472-7.
- The Therapeutic Process, the Self, and Female Psychology, 1992, ISBN 978-0-393-07472-7.
Literature
- Helene Deutsch: Selbstkonfrontation. Eine Autobiographie. Fischer-TB, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-11813-1
- Jutta Dick & Marina Sassenberg: Jüdische Frauen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Rowohlt, Reinbek 1993, ISBN 3-499-16344-6
- Paul Roazen: Helene Deutsch: A Psychoanalyst’s Life, N.Y., Doubleday, 1985, ISBN 978-0-385-19746-5.
- Paul Roazen: Freuds Liebling Helene Deutsch. Das Leben einer Psychoanalytikerin. Verlag Internat. Psychoanalyse, München, Wien 1989, ISBN 3-621-26513-9
See also
External links
- Helene Deutsch Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
References
- ^ Driscoll, Jr., Edgar (31-Mar-1982), "Dr. Helene Deutsch, 97, a leader in psychoanalysis, pupil of Freud", The Boston Globe, p. 63
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Altman, Lawrence (1-Apr-1982), "Dr. Helene Deutsch is Dead at 97; Psychoanalyst Analyzed by Freud", The New York Times, pp. D22
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