Helene Deutsch
Helene Deutsch · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychoanalyst who pioneered the psychology of women
1884, Przemyśl, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) — 1982, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Austria · United States
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Helene Deutsch was a Polish-born psychoanalyst, an early disciple of Freud and founder of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute, who became one of the first analysts to specialize in the psychology of women, culminating in her two-volume The Psychology of Women (1944–45). She came from a Jewish family and was among the many Central European Jewish émigrés who reshaped American psychoanalysis after fleeing to the United States.
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Psychoanalyst who pioneered the psychology of women
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