Editha Sterba
Editha Sterba (born 8. May 1895 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , died on 2. December 1986 in Detroit ) was a Austrian - American psychoanalyst and musicologist .
Life
Editha von Radanowicz-Hartmann was born the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian colonel. She attended a girls 'high school in Prague and then as the only girl a boys' high school in Baden near Vienna . In 1915 a study began Radanowicz-Hartmann at the University of Vienna in the subjects German , philosophy and musicology and received his doctorate in 1921 with the work "The Song of Vienna 1789-1815". From 1925 she was in psychoanalytic training and became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association , from 1930 as a full member. After the divorce of their first marriage, she married the doctor and psychoanalyst Richard Sterba in 1926 , with whom she opened a psychoanalytic practice in Vienna . After Austria's annexation in 1938, they fled with their two daughters to Switzerland and in 1939 went to the United States , where they set up a psychoanalytic institute in Detroit with Leo Bartemeier and ran their own practice.
As part of her specialization in child psychoanalysis , she worked with Anna Freud .
Works
- 1936: School and educational counseling
- 1936: Two types of defense
- 1949: Searchlights on delinquency
- Beethoven and his nephew. A Psychoanalytic Study of their Relationship. Patheon, New York 1954
- Ludwig van Beethoven and his nephew. Tragedy of a genius. A psychoanalytic study. Szczesny, Munich 1964
- 1972: Our family life
literature
- Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in Exile. The emigration of dynamic psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939. Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
- Eleonore Schneiderbauer: Richard and Editha Sterba. In: Oskar Frischenschlager (Ed.): Vienna, where else! The emergence of psychoanalysis and its schools. Böhlau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-205-98135-9 , pp. 142-150.
- Elke Mühlleitner: Sterba, Editha. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 710-712.
Web links
- Literature by and about Editha Sterba in the catalog of the German National Library
- Psychoanalysts - Biographical Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Die, Editha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radanowicz-Hartmann, Editha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American psychoanalyst |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1986 |
| Place of death | Detroit , Michigan , USA |