Christine Olden

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Christine Olden , née Marie-Christine Fournier , also Christine Fortwängler and Christine Mayer , (born May 17, 1888 in Prague ; died February 7, 1959 in New York ) was an Austrian-American psycho and child analyst.

Life

Olden was the daughter of the Viennese historian August Fournier (1850–1920) and his wife Dorothea, b. Gabillon (born 1850). Her maternal grandparents were the castle actors Ludwig and Zerlina Gabillon . She was married three times, with Hans Furtwängler (1871-1948), with the journalist and lawyer Rudolf Olden, and with a Czech communist named Mayer. Accordingly, she was sometimes called Christine Furtwängler, Christine Olden-Fournier and Christine Olden-Mayer. The daughter Marie-Christine Furtwängler, born in 1909, comes from the first marriage with Hans Furtwängler.

Christine Olden completed a psychoanalytic training in Berlin and Vienna with the Austrian psychoanalyst Hanns Sachs and belonged to a group of left-wing politically committed Freudians around Siegfried Bernfeld and Otto Fenichel. After completing her psychoanalytic training in 1938, she joined the Swiss Society for Psychoanalysis, but emigrated to the USA in the same year. She initially settled in Los Angeles as a so-called lay analyst (analysts who are not doctors) . In 1943 she moved to New York, where she was later made an honorary member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Like other psychoanalysts of her time, she devoted herself primarily to the analysis of children.

She became known through her explanations of empathy in the mother-child relationship and the attraction of the narcissistic personality to individuals and groups, which she explained from participating in the fantasized omnipotence. Some English-language articles and various correspondence have survived.

Essays

  • About the fascinating effect of the narcissistic personality . In: American Imago , 2 (4), 1941, pp. 347-356.
  • The psychology of obstinacy . In: The Psychoanalytic Quarterly , 12, 1943, pp. 240-255.
  • Headline intelligence . In: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , 2, 1946, pp. 263-269.
  • Notes on child rearing in America . In: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , 7, 1952, pp. 387-392.
  • On adult empathy with children . In: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , 8, 1953, pp. 111-126.
  • Notes on the development of empathy . In: Psychoanalytic Study of the Child , 13, 1958, pp. 505-520.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [New York Times], February 10, 1959.
  2. ↑ Christine Olden from psychoanalysts in Austria with a portrait , accessed on August 6, 2015
  3. ↑ cf. Stefano Bolignini: The psychoanalytic empathy . 2. corr. Edition Psychosozial-Verlag, Gießen 2012, p. 47f (Italian orig. L'empatia psicoanalytica 2002)
  4. ↑ Kalliope-Verbund , accessed on August 6, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Olden, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fournier, Marie-Christine (maiden name); Fortwängler, Christine; Mayer, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American psycho and child analyst
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Kingdom of Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH 7th February 1959
Place of death new York