Adelheid Koch

Adelheid Lucy Koch b. Schwalbe (born in Berlin in 1886 ; died in São Paulo in 1980 ) was a German-Brazilian psychoanalyst .

Life

Koch-Schwalbe was the daughter of the German-Jewish doctor and editor of the German Medical Weekly Julius Schwalbe (1863–1930). Her father had advocated medical studies for women despite a rather conservative stance, Adelheid Schwalbe studied medicine in Berlin during the 1920s, graduated in 1924 and received her doctorate in 1927 with a thesis on the infant mortality of illegitimate people in Berlin in 1922/23 . In 1923 she married the lawyer Ernst Koch (1892–1984), her daughter Esther was born in 1924 and the daughter Eleonore Koch , who later became a painter and sculptor, was born in 1926.

Koch began training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute in 1929, the training analyst was Otto Fenichel , and control analysts were Salomea Kempner and Therese Benedek . In 1935 she gave her recording lecture on "Resistance Analysis in a Narcissistic Neurosis". She was a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA).

After Hitler came to power and a short stay in Palestine , Adelheid Koch emigrated to Brazil with her family in 1936 through the mediation of Ernest Jones , then President of the IPA. With the support of Durval Marcondes (1899–1981), Brazilian psychiatrist and founder of the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise (SBP) in Rio de Janeiro , she began to conduct teaching analyzes in São Paulo in 1937. As the only training analyst at first, Adelheid Koch played an influential role in the psychoanalytic movement in Brazil. She trained the founding generation, including Marcondes, in accordance with the requirements of the IPA. When a chair for psychoanalysis was established at the Escola Livre de Sociologia e Política in 1939 , Marcondes was the first owner, Adelheid Koch became his assistant, later replaced by Virgínia Leone Bicudo . In 1944 she and her analysands founded the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo (SBPSP), which was recognized as an organization of the IPA in 1951.

In 1948 she had attended Melanie Klein's seminars in London and was theoretically based on their ideas (Kleinian School). She worked as an analyst in São Paulo until the 1960s.

Writings and contributions (selection)

• About the infant mortality of illegitimate people in Berlin in 1922/23. Medical dissertation, Berlin 1927.
• Neurosis dos pais - neurosis dos filhos. In: Neurobiologia , Recife, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1939, pp. 320-331, ISSN  0028-3800 .
• Considerações psicanalíticas sobre symbolos e contos populares. In: Revista de neurologia e psychiatria de São Paulo , Volume 6, No. 1, 1940, pp. 7-18.
• Terapêutica psicanalítica da histeria. In: Revista Brasileira de Medicina , Volume 44, No., 1954, pp. 51ff.
• Omnipotencia y sublimacion. In: Revista de Psicoanálisis , APA, Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina, Volume 13, No. 4, 1956, pp. 456-460.
• FH Capisano, A. Koch: Influência Histórico Social na Atitude Analítica. In: Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise , Volume 6, No. 3, 1972, pp. 344-356.
• Adelheid Koch. Uma historia que se confunde com a vida de uma instituição. IDE 3, 1976, pp. 7-12.
• [and others]: Reprogressão nas doenças. In: Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise , Volume 3, 1968, pp. 315-322, ISSN  0486-641X .

literature

• Hans Füchtner: Adelheid Lucy Koch, b. Swallow (1896-1980). Outline of life and emigration history. In: Lucifer-Amor. Journal for the History of Psychoanalysis 21 (42), 2008, pp. 79-87, ISSN  0933-3347 .
• Maria Angela Gomez Moretzsohn: Introduction to the life and work of Adelheid Lucy Koch (1896–1880) [sic]. In: Nydia Lisman-Pieczanski, Alberto Pieczanski (Eds.): The pioneers of psychoanalysis in South America: an essential guide . Routledge, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-415-71373-3 , pp. 231-233 .
• Durval Marcondes: Homenagem postuma à Dra. Adelheid Koch. In: Revista Brasileira de Psicanálise , Volume 16, 1982, p. 119.
• Ulrike May: Psychoanalysis in Berlin: 1920–1936. In: Yearbook of Psychoanalysis . Contributions to Theory, Practice and History , Volume 57, 2008, pp. 13–39, ISSN  0075-2363
• Leopold Nosek: Koch, Adelheid Lucy. In: A. de Mijolla (Ed.): Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse. Paris 2005, pp. 938ff (also: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Detroit et al. 2005, pp. 918-919).
• Raul Albino Pacheco Filho: Cook, Adelheid Lucy. In: Regina Helena de Freitas Campos: Dicionário biográfico da psicologia no Brasil. Pioneiros. Rio de Janeiro 2001, pp. 193-196.
• Elisabeth Roudinesco, Michel Plon (ed.): Dictionary of psychoanalysis: names, countries, works, terms . Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-7091-7216-2 .
• Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise de São Paulo (ed.): Álbum de família: Imagens, fontes e idéias da psicanálise em São Paulo. Sao Paulo 1994.

Web links

• Literature by and about Adelheid Koch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brigitte Nölleke: Adelheid Koch , psychoanalysts. Biographical Lexicon
• Portrait photography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Psychoanalysts in Latin America: Adelheid Koch. In: psychoanalytikerinnen.de. Retrieved December 8, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Maria Lúcia Castilho Romera, Rita de Cássia Cardoso da Silva Mendes: Restos de dor e marcas de invenção na Psicanálise brasileira: Adelheid Koch e Virgínia Bicudo. (PDF) In: www.fepal.org. Retrieved December 8, 2017 (Portuguese). 
3. ^ Durval Marcondes . In: Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão . tape 24 , no. 4 , 2004, ISSN  1414-9893 , p. 121-121 , doi : 10.1590 / S1414-98932004000400014 ( scielo.br ). scielo.br ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Virgínia Leone Bicudo: Contribuição para a Historia do Desenvolvimento da Psicanálise em São Paulo. In: Arquivos de Neuropsiquiatria , Volume 1, 1948, pp. 69-72.