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Helene Deutsch - A Psychoanalyst's Life (Hardcover)
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Helene Deutsch - A Psychoanalyst's Life (Hardcover)
Series: History of Ideas Series
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Student and protege of Sigmund Freud, Helene Deutsch was one of the
most influential psychoanalysts of her time. An early woman
analyst, Deutsch was an ardent feminist and a leading proponent of
Freud's controversial theories about the psychology of women.
Deutsch was also one of the first prominent career women to combine
a professional life with motherhood-even though she never resolved
her own conflicts over those contradictory demands. At the time of
her death in 1982 at the age of 97, Helene Deutsch was the last
survivior of Freud's original circle from Vienna. This volume is a
definitive account of the life and works of this remarkable-and
enigmatic-woman. The author knew Deutsch personally and was given
exclusive access to her papers after her death.The private life of
Helene Deutsch was as unconventional as her professional life.
While Felix Deutsch, a physician who specialized in psychosomatic
medicine, was to remain her husband for fifty years and father her
son, Martin, their relationship was highly eccentric. Roazen
produces evidence that indicates Felix Deutsch may have been
homosexual; also that their son was raised primarily by Felix, as
Helene was more interested in her career than was Felix in his, and
the Deutsches often lived continents apart.With the rise of Nazism,
Helene Deutsch departed in 1935 for America She was welcomed in
Cambridge, Massachusetts by the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and
was made director of the Society's new institute for the training
of analysts. Her two-volume The Psychology of Women, published in
1945, remains one of the foundations of modern analysis. Roazen's
biography is an authoritative portrait of a pioneer of
psychoanalysis, and one of the unique women of her day. It will be
of interest to psychoanalysts, cultural historians, and specialists
in women's studies.
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