- Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach) (
October 9 ,1884 –March 29 ,1982 ) was anAustria n-American psychoanalyst and colleague ofSigmund Freud . She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women.Born in
Przemyśl , Deutsch studied medicine and psychiatry inVienna andMunich , 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 ofmiscarriage s they eventually conceived a son, Martin. In 1935 she fled Germany, immigrating to Cambridge 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 inCambridge, Massachusetts in 1982.Published works
*"Psychoanalysis of the Sexual Functions of Women" 1925, translated to English in 1991, ISBN 0-946439-95-8
*"The Psychology of Women", 1944 - 1945
*"Neuroses and Character Types", 1965, ISBN 0-8236-3560-0
*"Selected Problems of Adolescence", 1967
*"A Psychoanalytic Study of the Myth of Dionysus and Apollo", 1969, ISBN 0-8236-4975-X
*"Confrontations with Myself", 1973
*"The Therapeutic Process, the Self, and Female Psychology", 1992, ISBN 0-88738-429-3ee also
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feminism and the oedipus complex External links
[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00550 Helene Deutsch Papers.] [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library,] Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
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