Helene Deutsch

Helene Deutsch
Biography of Deutsch
Born	(1884-10-09)9 October 1884 Przemyśl, Galicia, Austria-Hungary[1]
Died	29 March 1982(1982-03-29) (aged 97) Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.[2]
Nationality	Austria, American
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Known for	psychoanalysis of women
Scientific career
Fields	Psychoanalysis
Institutions	University of Vienna Vienna Psychoanalytic Society Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Psychoanalytic Society

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Important works The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923)
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Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained a practice. Deutsch was one of the first psychoanalysts to specialize in women. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.