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Philosophy & Social Sciences

Felix Deutsch

Who

Felix Deutsch · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Physician who advanced psychosomatic medicine

When

1884, Vienna, Austria-Hungary — 1964, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Where

Vienna · United States

Biography

Felix Deutsch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Physician who advanced psychosomatic medicine

How & why

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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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Physician who advanced psychosomatic medicine

1884

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology