Person
Helene Deutsch
Psychoanalyst born in Przemyśl, Galicia, who trained in Vienna, was analysed by Freud and became a leading training analyst of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society before emigrating to Boston in 1935. She wrote on female psychology, above all in The Psychology of Women (1944–1945), and described the 'as-if' personality.
- Born
- 1884
- Died
- 1982
- Influenced
- Notable works
- The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference
analysed
- Margaret Mahler 1926 Mahler's first training analysis, begun in Vienna in 1926. Deutsch ended it after about a year and declared her unanalysable.
influenced
- Heinrich Racker 1957 Racker took the name of his 'complementary identifications' from Helene Deutsch, who had spoken of a 'complementary position' for the analyst's identifications with the object imagoes.