Felix Deutsch
Felix Deutsch · Science & Medicine
Physician who advanced psychosomatic medicine
1884, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1964, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Vienna · United States
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Felix Deutsch was a physician and psychoanalyst who helped establish psychosomatic medicine, developing the idea of 'conversion' of psychic conflict into bodily illness and pioneering the associative-anamnesis interview. A Jew, he emigrated from Vienna to the United States, where he practiced and taught; he was married to the psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch.
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Physician who advanced psychosomatic medicine
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology
