David Rapaport

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Hungarian-born American psychologist and psychoanalytic theorist (1911–1960), known for systematising ego psychology. He translated Heinz Hartmann's "Ich-Psychologie und Anpassungsproblem" into English as "Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation" (1958).

Born: 1911
Died: 1960
Influenced by: Heinz Hartmann
Notable works: Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation1939
Identity and the Life Cycle: Selected Papers1959

influenced by

Heinz Hartmann 1958 Rapaport translated Hartmann's 1939 monograph into English (1958) and, in his historical survey of psychoanalytic ego psychology (1959), treated Hartmann's work as the basis of the field he set out to systematise.

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