Psychoanalyse der weiblichen Sexualfunktionen.
The First Female Analyst Patient of Sigmund Freud
[Medical]. Deutsch, Dr. Helene. Psychoanalyse der weiblichen Sexualfunktionen. Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Sigm. Freud. Nr. V. Leipzig…: Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1925.
8vo.; printed wrappers, glued; two pages of ads in the rear; title page sunned.
First edition of Deutsch’s study on female sexuality, published the same year that she founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. Deutsch’s research was published as part of Freud’s “Neue Arbeiten zur ärztlichen Psychoanalyse” (New Works of Medical Psychoanalysis) series; the inside of the upper wrapper lists the other works in the series. With chapters on reproductive anatomy, puberty, frigidity, sterility, breast-feeding, and the development of fetal sex characteristics.
Dr. Helene Rosenbach Deutsch (1884-1982) was the first woman analyst to be analyzed by Sigmund Freud. Her most famous book, the two-volume “The Psychology of Women,” was published in 1944 and was considered for decades to be the definitive text on female psychology from girlhood to motherhood. Deutsch advocated socialist and feminist causes in her native Austria, organizing labor strikes and suffrage marches, until she enrolled in medical school in Vienna in 1907. However, her focus soon shifted to psychiatry, and she founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in 1925 and remained director there for 10 years. In 1935, she immigrated to the United States with her husband, fellow analyst Felix Deutsch, and continued to practice as a psychoanalyst and publish her research. In the U.S., Deutsch remained a controversial figure—she openly protested the Vietnam War and was frequently targeted by feminists who felt that, like Freud’s, her theories could be interpreted as justification for the subjugation of women.
“Dr. Helene Deutsch is Dead at 97,” by Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times, April 1, 1982.
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