Kate Friedlander
Kate Friedlander (born Käte Frankl; also Käte Misch-Frankl or Kate Friedländer-Frankl; 1902–1949) was a female psychoanalyst, who left Germany for England in 1933, and became a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society.
Training and contributions
[edit]Analysed by Hanns Sachs, Friedlander placed herself squarely in the tradition of psychoanalysis represented by Anna Freud, and encouraged her in establishing the Hampstead Clinic for child therapy,[1] as well as working herself in parallel outreach institutions.[2]
Among her theoretical contributions were an exploration of libidinal elements in the wish to die - the Death drive - and an examination of female masochism through the figure of Charlotte Brontë.[3] She also wrote on the link between crime, and defects in the development of ego/superego.[4]
Family
[edit]She was the mother of philosopher Sybil Wolfram (born Sybille Misch). The scientist and entrepreneur Stephen Wolfram and technologist Conrad Wolfram are her grandchildren.[5]
Selected writings
[edit]- ___'On the Longing to Die', International Journal of Psycho-Analysis XXI (1940)
- ___'Children's Books and their Function in Latency and Puberty' American Imago III (1942)
- ___The Psycho-Analytic Approach to Juvenile Delinquency (1947)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ F. Alexander et al eds., Psychoanalytic Pioneers (1995) p. 508
- ^ N. Malberg, The Anna Freud Tradition (2012) p. 391
- ^ O. Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 209, 362, and 618
- ^ S. L. Halleck, Psychiatry and the Dilemmas of Crime (1971) p. 96
- ^ Smith, M. Estellie (1993). "Obituary". Anthropology Today. 9 (6): 22–22. ISSN 0268-540X.
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