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Kate Friedlander

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Kate Friedlander · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Psychoanalyst noted for work on juvenile delinquency

When

1902, Innsbruck, Austria — 1949, London, England

Where

Austria · Germany · United Kingdom

Biography

Kate Friedlander is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychoanalyst noted for work on juvenile delinquency

How & why

Friedlander was an Austrian-born British psychoanalyst and physician who pioneered the psychoanalytic understanding of juvenile delinquency and helped build child guidance and child psychotherapy in Britain. Her book The Psycho-Analytical Approach to Juvenile Delinquency (1947) became a standard work, and she collaborated with Anna Freud on the Hampstead child-therapy movement. She fled Nazism to London in 1933 and was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology

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Psychoanalyst noted for work on juvenile delinquency

1902

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Psychology