Person
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
German-born psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who emigrated to the United States in 1935 and worked for the rest of her life at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, treating schizophrenic patients by intensive psychotherapy. Close to Harry Stack Sullivan in Washington, she taught at the Washington School of Psychiatry and set out her method in Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy (1950).
Read more- Born
- 1889
- Died
- 1957
- Influenced
- Influenced by
- Harry Stack Sullivan
collaborated with
- Harry Stack Sullivan Colleagues in Washington from the later 1930s: both taught at the Washington School of Psychiatry, Sullivan lectured to the staff of Chestnut Lodge, where Fromm-Reichmann worked, and both took part in founding the William Alanson White Institute.
influenced by
- Harry Stack Sullivan Sullivan's interpersonal approach to schizophrenia shaped the intensive psychotherapy Fromm-Reichmann practised at Chestnut Lodge.
analysed
- Erich Fromm Frieda Reichmann analysed Fromm in Heidelberg in the mid-1920s; the analysis turned into a love affair, and they married in 1926.