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).
Influence
Affinity
- 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.
- influenced Harold Searles
Searles joined Chestnut Lodge in 1949, where Fromm-Reichmann was then practising intensive psychotherapy with psychotic patients. His understanding of psychosis was shaped by her there.
Lineage
- 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.
References
- Psychiatrist of America: The Life of Harry Stack Sullivan1982 Evidence for a relation