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Helene Deutsch (1884–1982)

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Helene Deutsch was an eminent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the first director of the Training Institute of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, and a lecturer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, where she influenced a generation of American psychoanalysts and social scientists. She was born Helene Rosenbach in Przemyśl, Galicia (now Poland), on 9 October 1884, the youngest of four children of Wilhelm and Regina Rosenbach, an assimilated Jewish family. Her father was a scholar in international law and a district magistrate.

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Triarhou, L.C. (2022). Helene Deutsch (1884–1982). In: The Brain Masters of Vienna. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13052-6_15

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