Ruth Brunswick

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Ruth Mack Brunswick (born February 17, 1897 in Chicago , † January 24, 1946 in New York City ) was an American psychoanalyst .

Life

She was born under the name Ruth Jane Mack. Her parents Julian William and Jessie Mack had German-Jewish roots. In 1917 she married the cardiologist Hermann Ludwig Blumgart , who made her aware of Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis , and from whom she was divorced in 1924. She was also divorced from her second husband, the composer Mark Brunswick .

In 1922, she received her PhD from Tufts Medical School , Boston , after being rejected from Harvard because of her gender as a student.

In the same year she went to Vienna to be analyzed by Sigmund Freud and soon belonged to his inner circle. Freud referred his patient Sergius Pankejeff (known as the " Wolf Man ") to Brunswick. From 1926 to 1932 Max Schur (later Freud's personal physician) did a training analysis with her . The Vienna Psychoanalytical Association accepted her as a member in 1930.

Brunswick devoted her psychoanalytic research to the development of the emotional bond between mother and child and the psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis .

Brunswick fled Vienna from the National Socialists in 1938 , settled in Washington, DC as a psychoanalyst and became a training analyst for the New York Psychoanalytical Society . She died on January 24, 1946 in New York City .

Fonts (selection)

  • The analysis of a mania for jealousy . In: International Journal for Psychoanalysis (IZP) 14 (1928), pp. 459–507.
  • A dream from an eleventh century Japanese novel . In: Imago 14 (1928), pp. 147f.
  • A note on the childish theory of coitus a tergo . In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP) 10 (1929), pp. 93-95.
  • The pre-edipal phase of the libido development . In: Psychoanalytical Quarterly 9 (1940), pp. 293-319.
  • An addendum to Freud's "History of an Infantile Neurosis". In: The Wolf Man from the Wolf Man. With the medical history of the Wolfsmann by Sigmund Freud , the addendum by Ruth Mack Brunswick and a foreword by Anna Freud . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1972, ISBN 3-10-092601-3 , pp. 297-346. (Edited with annotations, an introduction and additional chapters by Muriel Gardiner ; the American original edition The Wolf-Man was published by Basic Books, New York 1971)

literature

  • L. Freeman and H. Strean: Freud & women . New York: The Continuum Publishing Company 1987.
  • Lisa Appignanesi and John Forrester: The Wives of Sigmund Freud . Munich: Econ 1996.
  • Mack-Brunswick, Ruth , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , pp. 637f.

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personal data
SURNAME Brunswick, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brunswick, Ruth Mack; Mack, Ruth Jane (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1946
Place of death New York City