Edith Weigert
Edith Weigert , nee Vowinckel , also Edith Vowinckel Weigert (born February 6, 1894 in Düsseldorf , † January 12, 1982 in Chevy Chase, Maryland ) was a German-American psychoanalyst .
Life
The banker's daughter Edith Vowinckel spent her childhood in Düsseldorf. After studying medicine at the University of Berlin , she worked as an assistant at the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic of the Charité with Karl Bonhoeffer . At the same time, she completed her psychoanalytic training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute , her training analyst was Carl Müller-Braunschweig . She then worked for two years as an assistant doctor at the Schloss Tegel sanatorium .
In 1935 she fled to Turkey with her husband, the ministerial official and lawyer Oscar Weigert , who was dismissed “for non-Aryan origins” in 1933 , and their son . After three years of pioneering psychoanalytic work there as the first female psychoanalyst in Turkey , she emigrated to the USA , where, in addition to working in private practice, she was involved in major developments in American psychoanalysis. In addition to Sigmund Freud , she orientated herself on Harry Stack Sullivan and his interpersonal theory, as well as Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and her psychotherapy for schizophrenics . She relativized the Oedipus complex and infantile sexuality. Based on existentialism , she defined psychopathology as a loss of trust, hope, and authenticity. In her writings she often dealt with fear, a danger signal for impending loneliness and loss of trust.
literature
- Maren Holmes: Düsseldorf - Berlin - Ankara - Washington: The curriculum vitae of Edith Weigert, b. Vowinckel (1894-1982). In: Lucifer-Amor. Journal of the History of Psychoanalysis. Vol. 20 (2007), H. 39, pp. 7-52.
- Galina Hristeva: “Not to be hated, I am there to be loved.” Psychoanalysis and National Socialism in the life and work of Edith Weigert. In: Werkblatt. Journal of Psychoanalysis and Social Criticism. No. 74, 1/2015, pp. 96-111.
- Refuses, Edith . In: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich, Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1216
Web links
- Edith Weigert b. Vowinckel (1894-1982). In: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon.
- Dr. Edith V. Weigert, retired psychiatrist. In: Washington Post . January 14, 1982
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Refuses, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1982 |
| Place of death | Chevy Chase, Maryland |