Richard Sterba

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Richard Sterba in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Outpatient Clinic in 1922 (seated, 2nd from right).
Photo: Ludwig Gutmann

Richard Francis Sterba (born May 6, 1898 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died October 24, 1989 in Grosse Pointe (Michigan) ) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst .

Life

Sterba became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Association . In 1926 he married the psychoanalyst Editha von Radanowicz-Hartmann . After the annexation of Austria in 1938, both fled to Switzerland and from there went to the United States , where they set up a psychoanalytic institute in Detroit with Leo Bartemeier and ran their own practice.

Research focus

Sterba coined the term therapeutic ego splitting (the fate of the ego in therapeutic procedures). He spoke of a therapeutic splitting of the “I” into an experiencing and an observing “I”. The latter should enable the patient to observe himself, to look in depth and to analyze. His work is getting new impetus from current brain research, which shows that the essential differences between the brains of simple vertebrates and the human brain are that the more recent parts analyze the existing ones, i.e. build up overarching ideas of the stimulus perception and processing processes.

Fonts

  • Memories of a Viennese psychoanalyst , Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag 1985 ISBN 3-596-27354-4

literature

  • Elke Mühlleitner: Personal Lexicon of Psychotherapy , Springer Verlag, 2005
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (ed.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1121
  • Richard Francis Sterba: The Fate of the Ego in Analytic Therapy. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis 15: 117-126
  • Heinz Kohut : Narcissism. A theory of the psychoanalytic treatment of narcissistic personality disorders. suhrkamp pocket book science, Frankfurt a. M. 1976 [am. Orig .: The Analysis of the Self. A Systematic Approach to the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Narcissistic Personality Disorders . International Universities Press, New York 1971]
  • Wolf Singer : Attachment Problems, Neurobiological Considerations . supposé publishing house 2003; ISBN 978-3932513480
  • Eleonore Schneiderbauer: Richard and Editha Sterba , in: Oskar Frischenschlager (Ed.): Vienna, where else! The emergence of psychoanalysis and its schools . Vienna: Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-205-98135-9 , pp. 142–150

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personal data
SURNAME Sterba, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sterba, Richard F .; Sterba, Richard Francis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychoanalyst of Austrian origin
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1989
Place of death Grosse Pointe (Michigan)