Helene Deutsch

Helene Deutsch
Biography of Deutsch
Born
Helene Rosenbach

(1884-10-09)9 October 1884
Przemyśl, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died29 March 1982(1982-03-29) (aged 97)
Alma materUniversity of Vienna
Known forPsychoanalysis of women
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoanalysis
Institutions

Helene Deutsch (German: [dɔʏtʃ]; née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained a practice. Deutsch was one of the first psychoanalysts to specialize in women. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.