Felix Deutsch (psychiatrist)

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Felix Deutsch (born August 9, 1884 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † January 2, 1964 in Cambridge , Massachusetts) was an Austrian - American internist , psychoanalyst and pioneer of psychosomatics .

Life

The son of bank clerk Nathan Deutsch (died 1889) graduated from high school in 1903. Under pressure from anti-Semitism , he joined the Kadimah (student union) and became a staunch supporter of Zionism . He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1909 and initially devoted himself to training in internal medicine in Vienna and Munich. In 1919 he completed his habilitation for internal medicine at the University of Vienna. In 1921 he received a teaching position. He found his way to psychoanalysis and psychosomatics through clinical observation, especially of heart patients. After giving a lecture on “Psychoanalysis and Organic Diseases”, he was accepted into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association in 1922 . He was involved in setting up the first psychoanalytical outpatient clinic and was analyzed by Siegfried Bernfeld . In 1922/23 he was Sigmund Freud's family doctor . In 1927 Deutsch reintroduced the term psychosomatic into the scientific discussion and founded the journal Psychosomatic Medicine in 1939 . In 1936, Deutsch emigrated to the USA, where he taught from 1939 to 1941 as the first professor of psychosomatic medicine at Washington University in St. Louis , Missouri. He spent the rest of his life in Boston. Deutsch published 10 books and over 200 specialist articles, including on sports medicine and on the subject of art and medicine.

His wife since 1912 was the psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch , his son the physicist Martin Deutsch .

literature

  • Gerrit Hohendorf: The psychosomatic theory formation with Felix Deutsch (1884-1964). A contribution to the history of psychoanalysis of the body (1884–1964). Matthiesen, Husum 2004, ISBN 3-7868-4099-7 .
  • Peter H. Knapp: In Memoriam: Felix Deutsch, MD In: Psychosomatic Medicine. Vol. 26 (1964), No. 4, pp. 303-305 ( online ).
  • Uwe Henrik Peters : Psychiatry in Exile: The Emigration of Dynamic Psychiatry from Germany 1933–1939. Kupka, Düsseldorf 1992, ISBN 3-926567-04-X .
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 212
  • Elke Mühlleitner: Biographical Lexicon of Psychoanalysis. The members of the Psychological Wednesday Society and the Vienna Psychoanalytical Association 1902–1938 . Tübingen: Edition Diskord, 1992 ISBN 3-89295-557-3 , pp. 72-74

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personal data
SURNAME German, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-American internist, psychoanalyst and psychosomatic specialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1964
Place of death Cambridge, Massachusetts