Herbert Rosenfeld

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Herbert Alexander Rosenfeld (born July 2, 1910 in Nuremberg ; died November 29, 1986 in London ) was a German-British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst of the Kleinian direction and a pioneer in the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses .

Life

Herbert Rosenfeld had been interested in psychology and the human sciences since his early youth . Although his father wanted to see him as his successor in the family business, he decided to study medicine , which he completed at various German universities and completed in Munich in 1934 with a dissertation on multiple absences in childhood. Due to the Nuremberg Laws , he was not allowed to treat Aryan patients . Therefore he emigrated to England in 1935 .

literature

  • Phyllis Grosskurth: An interview with Herbert Rosenfeld . In: Psyche. Journal of Psychoanalysis and Its Applications , Vol. 43 (1989), pp. 142-149, ISSN  0033-2623
  • Katharina Leitner: Herbert Rosenfeld . In: Gerhard Stumm , Alfred Pritz et al. (Ed.): Personal dictionary of psychotherapy . Springer, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-211-83818-X , 409-410.

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Individual evidence

  1. Gerhard Stumm, Alfred Pritz et al. (Ed.): Personal Lexikon der Psychotherapie , pp. 409-410.