Erna Furman

Erna Furman (born June 14, 1926 in Vienna ; † August 9, 2002 in Cleveland , Ohio ), née Erna Mary Popper , was an Austrian-born American child psychologist and psychologist.

Life

In Vienna, where Erna Furman was born into a wealthy Jewish family, she attended a Montessori kindergarten . After the " Anschluss of Austria " in March 1938, the family fled to Prague , where they owned real estate, and the family also had Czechoslovak citizenship. They planned to emigrate to England , but that only succeeded Erna Furman's father, Karl Popper; the mother, Margarete Popper, and the daughter could no longer leave the country due to the German occupation . In 1942 Erna Furman and her mother were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , later her grandmother and her three aunts were brought to the camp. She was released in May 1945 after Theresienstadt was liberated by the Red Army and was the only one in the family who survived.

Erna Furman met the painter, craftsperson and interior designer Friedl Dicker-Brandeis in Theresienstadt , from whom she took intensive lessons. Her drawings from Theresienstadt were shown from April 18, 2002 in the exhibition "Friedl and the Children of Terezin: An Exhibition of Art and Hope", which was initiated by Simon Wiesenthal in Tokyo’s Fuji Art Museum in memory of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis . Elena Makarova initiated another exhibition with drawings by Erna Furman in Los Angeles.

After May 1945 she stayed in Czechoslovakia for a few months and lived in Olešovice , where she worked in the rehabilitation center of the Czech pedagogue Přemysl Pitter , which was set up for Jewish (and later German) children affected by the war, especially orphans. She also trained as a teacher.

After finishing this, Furman moved to London to live with her father in 1946. She trained as a child analyst with Anna Freud at the Hampstead Child-Therapy Clinic in Hampstead and attended courses at the University of London (graduating with a BA in 1950). In 1952 she emigrated to the United States , where she settled in Cleveland and married Robert A. Furman , who was also a child psychiatrist with whom she had two daughters.

Erna Furman, who was strongly influenced by Anna Freud and in whose tradition, has for fifty years after 1952 always devoted herself to the problem of parental loss in childhood, early personality development and parenting, in which she was considered an expert. She practiced in various scientific and similar institutions such as the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development (founded by Anny Angel-Katan ), of which her husband Robert A. Furman became director in 1958, and at Cleveland University Hospital, Case West Reserve School of Medicine (Assistant Professor for Psychiatry, from 1960), Cleveland Psychoanalytic Society , Cleveland Psychoanalytic Institute (on the faculty, 1961 to 2002), Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development ; she was also President of the International Association of Child Psychoanalysis from 1998 to 2000 .

Fonts

• A Child's Parent Dies. Studies in Childhood Bereavement. Yale University Press, New Haven CT et al. 1974, ISBN 0-300-01719-7 (German: A child orphan. Studies on parental loss in childhood. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-12-902680-0 ).
• What Nursery School Teachers ask us about. Psychoanalytic Consultations in Preschools (= Emotions and Behavior Monographs. 5). International Universities Press, Madison CT 1986, ISBN 0-8236-6890-4 .
• Helping Young Children grow. "I never knew Parents did so much". International Universities Press, Madison CT 1987, ISBN 0-8236-2322-X .
• The Teacher's Guide to Helping Young Children Grow. The Teacher's Manual. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1987, ISBN 0-8236-2275-4 .
• Toddlers and their Mothers. A Study in Early Personality Development. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1992, ISBN 0-8236-6555-0 .
• Toddlers and Their Mothers. Abridged Version for Parents and Educators. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1993, ISBN 0-8236-8318-4 .
• as editor: Preschoolers. Questions and Answers. Psychoanalytic Consultations with Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1995, ISBN 0-8236-4255-0 .
• Needs, Urges and Feelings in early Childhood. Helping Young Children grow. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1998, ISBN 0-8236-8160-2 .
• Relationships in Early Childhood. Helping Young Children grow. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1998, ISBN 0-8236-8272-2 .
• Self-Control and Mastery in Early Childhood. Helping Young Children Grow. International Universities Press, Madison CT 1998, ISBN 0-8236-6555-0 .
• On Being and Having a Mother. International Universities Press, Madison CT 2001, ISBN 0-8236-3732-8 (collection of Erna Furman's scientific papers on education).

Furman wrote most of the books at the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development , where she worked intensively for almost 50 years. Erna Furman has also published over 200 articles in numerous specialist journals. A Child's Parent This monograph was recognized by the American Society for Medical Publications in 1975.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedl and the Children of Terezin: An Exhibition of Art and Hope , Section Memories of Friedl , online (archived in the web archive) at: sgiquarterly.org / ... ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 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.  
2. ^ History. How we got our name , portal of the Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development, online at: hannaperkins.org / ...
3. ↑ Erna Furman, child psychoanalyst and employee of Anna Freud, is dead , Der Standard (Vienna), October 1, 2002, online: derstandard.at / ...

swell

• Erna Furman b. Popper (1926-2002) , biography in: Psychoanalysts. Biographical lexicon , online at: psychoanalytikerinnen.de / ...
• A LIFE OF CARING , biography, in: Makarova Initiatives Project: Erna Furman - Ways Of Growing Up , online at: makarovainit.com/

literature

• Elena Makarova, Erna Furman. Ways of Growing Up , Texts and interviews, Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam, 2007, ISBN 978-90-902207-6-5