Stephanie Felsenburg

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Stephanie Felsenburg (born April 9, 1902 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died March 1977 in England ) was an Austrian doctor , psychologist and representative of individual psychology .

Life

Stephanie Felsenburg completed her Matura in 1922, studied medicine at the University of Vienna and received her doctorate in 1932. She became a member of Alfred Adler's Association for Individual Psychology , where she was elected to the board around 1930. In 1937 she got involved with other individual psychologists who remained in Vienna in the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology . Stephanie Felsenburg emigrated to England in 1939, where she apparently worked as a psychiatrist and also died.

plant

Stephanie Felsenburg worked at the Club of Friends of Individual Psychology at Zedlitzgasse 8, in Vienna's 1st district. Other employees were Rudolf Dreikurs , Paula Fürth , Paul Brodsky , Fritz Fischl , Ida Löwy , Margarete Hilferding , Helene Plohn-Goldbaum , Danica Deutsch , Edith Goldberger , Franz Plewa , Hilde Krampflitschek , Elly Rothwein , and Emmerich Weissmann . The “club” organized lectures and formed working groups on topics such as group education, puberty, testimony, learning support, kindergarten, dream interpretation, neurosis theory, sexual pathology, theory and practice of individual psychology, which were very well received.

In January 1937 the association in the Wiener Morgenblatt was sharply attacked because of the Jewish origin of some individual psychologists. After the National Socialists marched into Austria, the Association for Individual Psychology was officially dissolved on January 26, 1939.

literature

  • Clara Kenner: Felsenburg, Stephanie. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 174f. ( online ).
  • Bernhard Handlbauer: The history of the development of the individual psychology of Alfred Adler . Geyer Edition, Vienna-Salzburg 1984, ISBN 3850901084

Web links

American-Jewish yearbook for Great Britain (PDF; 264 kB)

personal data
SURNAME Felsenburg, Stephanie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and individual psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 1977
Place of death England