W. Ernest Freud

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W. Ernest Freud (originally Ernst Wolfgang Halberstadt , born March 11, 1914 in Altona / Elbe , † September 30, 2008 in Heidelberg ) was a German psychoanalyst and infant researcher .

Life

He was the son of the portrait photographer Max Halberstadt and Sophie Freud, Sigmund Freud's second daughter , and thus Freud's eldest grandson. When he was five years old, his mother died of Spanish flu and with her the unborn child. He stayed with his father while his younger brother Heinz, called Heinerle, came to his aunt Mathilde in Vienna, where he died three years later of tuberculosis. In 1921 Ernst became the first patient of his aunt Anna Freud , who from then on gave him strong support. His father married again, Ernst suffered under his stepmother's regime. From 1928 to 1931 he lived with Eva Rosenfeld in Vienna . He then attended school in Berlin until shortly before his Abitur, in 1933 he had to leave Germany and he went back to Vienna, where he graduated from school in 1935. In 1938 he emigrated to Great Britain: He came to London via Paris, where he was interned on the Isle of Man in 1940 as an enemy foreigner . After his father's death in 1951, he took his mother's surname. In 1945 he married Irene Chambers, with whom he had a son, Colin Peter Freud (1956-1987) and from whom he was divorced in 1983.

After the war he studied psychology until 1949 and completed psychoanalytic training for adults and then for children. He was shaped by Anna Freud, Melanie Klein , Donald Winnicott and Wilhelm Hoffer. He was the only grandson of Freud who turned to psychoanalysis . Freud specialized in child analysis and did research primarily on infants. Like his aunt Anna Freud, he worked at the Hampstaed Clinic. Here he developed the "Baby Profile", an observation concept for infants that served as the basis for detailed mother-child observations in the "Well Baby Clinic", a preventive care facility within the Hampstaed Clinic. His focus was on the parent-child relationship in the earliest stages of development up to the prenatal phase. After a visiting professorship in the USA in 1977, W. Ernest Freud began to deal with psychological aspects in children in intensive care units for newborns. In the course of his experience, he called for direct skin contact between mother and child, especially for premature children. He also described the so-called “Whose Baby Syndrome” (WBS) , in the context of which the interactions between a clinical team and the parents of premature and high-risk babies in the neonatal ward are critically discussed. W. Ernest Freud was considered one of the leading psychoanalysts in the field of prenatal psychology .

In the early to mid-1980s, he developed “ analytical intensive treatment ” with Wilhelm Salber and other psychologists from the University of Cologne . After his son had a fatal accident, Ernest Freud returned to Germany in 1987 and practiced as a psychoanalyst in Bergisch Gladbach . On the initiative of Wilhelm Salber, the University of Cologne awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1992 . He died in Heidelberg in 2008 at the age of 94.

Fonts (selection)

  • The importance of early childhood development in psychoanalytic training. In: Psyche . 30, 1976, pp. 723-743.
  • Notes on some psychological aspects of neonatal intensive care. In: JS Greenspan, GH Pollock (Ed.): The course of life. Vol I, NIMH Adelphi, Maryland 1980.
  • Reducing and intensifying factors in the analysis from a clinical and psychoanalytic point of view. In: Y. Ahren, W. Wagner (Ed.): Analytical intensive advice. Working group Morphological Psychology eV, Cologne 1984.
  • Prenatal Relationship and Attachment. In: Child and Environment. 56, 1987, pp. 1-18.
  • Looking for a better understanding of premature labor aspirations. In: International Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine . 4, 1992, pp. 255-262.
  • Prenatal attachment, the perinatal continuum and the psychological side of neonatal intensive care. In: P. Fedor-Freybergh, V. Vogel (Ed.): Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine . Parthenon, Carnforth, Lancaster 1988.
  • Whose baby? A contribution to the psychodynamic of perinatal care. In: JS Greenspan, GH Pollock (Ed.): The course of life. 2nd Edition. International University Press, Madeson 1988.
  • Remaining in Touch - On the importance of the continuity of early relationship experiences. Consequences of psychoanalytic developmental psychology for the prophylaxis of early damage. Collected Writings 1965–2000. Edition Déjà-vu, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-9805317-4-0 . (Information about the book)

literature

  • Daniel Benveniste: The Interwoven Lives Of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis. Astoria, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4954-4122-6 .
  • Hans von Lüpke: Obituary for W. Ernest Freud. Int. J. Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine. 20, 2008, pp. 132-134.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brigitte Spreitzer (Ed.): Anna Freud. Poems - prose - translations. Böhlau, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-205-79497-4 , p. 330.
  2. ↑ Lucifer-Cupid. Journal of the History of Psychoanalysis. Edition Diskord, 33 (2004) [Special Issue Family Freud], p. 94.
  3. ↑ Obituary: W. Ernest Freud (1914-2008). ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: International PSYCHOANALYSIS, News Magazine of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Volume 17, December 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.benvenistephd.com
  4. ↑ M. Jotzo: Whose Baby Syndrome and Structure of the Parent-Child Relationship. In: Klin Padiatr. 2010, pp. 222-233.
  5. ↑ Parents' initiative “Frühstart”: Everything is possible. In: Spiegel online. 2010.
  6. ↑ Ludwig Janus : Psychoanalysis of the prenatal lifetime and the birth. Pfaffenweiler 1993, p. 67.
  7. ^ W. Salber: Psychological treatment. 2nd, revised edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2001.
  8. ^ WE Freud: Shortening and intensifying factors in analysis from a clinical and psychoanalytic point of view. In: Y. Ahren, W. Wagner (Ed.): Analytical intensive advice. Working group Morphological Psychology eV, Cologne 1984.
  9. ^ Obituary for W. Ernest Freud
personal data
SURNAME Freud, W. Ernest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halberstadt, Ernst Wolfgang (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Altona
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2008
Place of death Heidelberg