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.
Influence
Lineage
- 1926 analysed Margaret Mahler
Mahler's first training analysis, begun in Vienna in 1926. Deutsch ended it after about a year and declared her unanalysable.
Affinity
- 1957 influenced Heinrich Racker
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.
References
- The Meanings and Uses of Countertransference1957Evidence for a relation