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Frieda Fromm-Reichmann
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann ( Reichmann; October 23, 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany – April 28, 1957 in Rockville, Maryland) was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who immigrated to America during World War II. She was a pioneer for women in science, specifically within psychology and the treatment of schizophrenia. She is known for coining the now widely debunked term Schizophrenogenic mother. In 1948, she wrote ''"the schizophrenic is painfully distrustful and resentful of other people, due to the severe early warp and rejection he encountered in important people of his infancy and childhood, as a rule, mainly in a schizophrenogenic mother"''. Family history Fromm-Reichmann was born to Adolf and Klara Reichmann in Karlsruhe, German Empire in 1889. She was raised in a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family and was the oldest of three daughters; her sisters were Grete and Anna. She came from a large, supportive and impactful family. Her paternal great grandfather had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. It is also a former capital of Baden, a historic region named after Hohenbaden Castle in the city of Baden-Baden. Located on the right bank of the Rhine near the French border, between the Mannheim/ Ludwigshafen conurbation to the north and Strasbourg/Kehl to the south, Karlsruhe is Germany's legal center, being home to the Federal Constitutional Court (''Bundesverfassungsgericht''), the Federal Court of Justice (''Bundesgerichtshof'') and the Public Prosecutor General of the Federal Court of Justice (''Generalbundesanwalt beim Bundesgerichtshof''). Karlsruhe was the capital of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach ( Durlach: 1565–1718; Karlsruhe: 1718–1771), the Margraviate of Baden (1771–1803), the Electorate of Baden (1803–18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Army (German Empire)
The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army (german: Deutsches Heer), was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire. It was established in 1871 with the political unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, and was dissolved in 1919, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I (1914–1918). In the Federal Republic of Germany, the term ' identifies the German Army, the land component of the '. Formation and name The states that made up the German Empire contributed their armies; within the German Confederation, formed after the Napoleonic Wars, each state was responsible for maintaining certain units to be put at the disposal of the Confederation in case of conflict. When operating together, the units were known as the Federal Army ('). The Federal Army system functioned during various conflicts of the 19th century, such as the First Schleswig War from 1848–50 but by the time of the Second Schleswig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gail Hornstein
Gail Hornstein is an American psychologist and author. She is a professor of psychology and education at Mount Holyoke College. She doesn't see mental disorders as merely chemical imbalance Scientific studies have found that different brain areas show altered activity in humans with major depressive disorder (MDD), and this has encouraged advocates of various theories that seek to identify a biochemical origin of the disease, as opp ...s in the brain, but is more interested in the lived experiences of those suffering from various mental ailments. Her ''Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of Madness in English'' lists more than 1,000 books by people who have written about madness from their own experience; it is used by researchers, clinicians, educators, and peer groups around the world. Her 2009 book ''Agnes's Jacket'' is a history of survivors of the mental health system and their stories. In 2017, she attracted criticism for publishing an article in the ''Chronicle of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hope Hale Davis
Hope Hale Davis (née Frances Hope Hale; November 2, 1903 – October 2, 2004) was a 20th-century American feminist (or "proto-feminist") and communist, later a writer and writing teacher. Background Davis was born Frances Hope Hale on November 2, 1903 in Iowa City, Iowa, the fifth and youngest child of Hal Hale, a school superintendent, and Frances McFarland, a teacher. Her father died young, and her mother remarried to John Overholt. When her stepfather died, too, Davis and her mother moved to Washington, D.C. There, Davis studied at the new Corcoran School of Art and George Washington University, as well as Cincinnati University and the Portland School of Art. She did not obtain a college degree. Career In 1924, Davis became assistant to the Stuart Walker Repertory Company's art director, for whom she painted scenery and designed costumes. In 1926, she moved to New York City, where she worked in advertising as a secretary at the Frank Presbrey Agency. There, she wrote ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rollo May
Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book '' Love and Will'' (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work. As well as ''Love and Will'', May's works include ''The Meaning of Anxiety'' (1950, revised 1977) and, titled in honor of Tillich's ''The Courage to Be'', ''The Courage to Create'' (1975). Life and Career May was born in Ada, Ohio, on April 21, 1909. He experienced a difficult childhood when his parents divorced and his sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was the first son of a family with six children. His mother often left the children to care for themselves, and with his sister suffering from schizophrenia, he bore a great deal of respon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (novel)
''I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'' (1964) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It served as the basis for a film in 1977 and a play in 2004. Inspiration The character of Dr. Fried is based closely on Greenberg's real doctor Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, and the hospital on Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland. While at Chestnut Lodge, Greenberg described a fantasy world called Iria to her doctors, quoting poetry in the Irian language. However, some of Greenberg's doctors felt that this was not a true delusion but rather something Greenberg had made up on the spot to impress her psychiatrist. One doctor went so far as to state that Irian was not an actual language, but was a form of bastardized Armenian. However, according to Gerald Schoenewolf, Irian was a conlang invented by Greenberg at an early age to prevent her father from reading her poetry, and had its own writing system resembling Chinese characters. Fromm-R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Greenberg
Joanne Greenberg (born September 24, 1932, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author who published some of her work under the pen name of Hannah Green. She was a professor of anthropology at the Colorado School of Mines and a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician. Greenberg is best known for the semi-autobiographical bestselling novel '' I Never Promised You a Rose Garden'' (1964). It was adapted into a 1977 movie and a 2004 play of the same name. She received the Harry and Ethel Daroff Memorial Fiction Award as well as the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction in 1963 for her debut novel ''The King's Persons'' (1963), about the massacre of the Jewish population of York at York Castle in 1190. Greenberg appears in the Daniel Mackler documentary ''Take These Broken Wings'' (2004) about recovering from schizophrenia without the use of psychiatric medication. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Alanson White Institute
The William Alanson White Institute (WAWI), founded in 1943, is an institution for training psychoanalysts and psychotherapists which also offers general psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. It is located in New York City, United States, on the Upper West Side, in the Clara Thompson building. It was founded as a protest against the mainstream of American psychoanalytic thought, which was thought to be sterile, dogmatic, and constrictive by the psychoanalysts who founded the institute. WAWI differs from mainstream psychoanalysis through their interpersonal approach to therapy, where the therapist takes an active interest in the patient's life and becomes invested in their wellbeing. WAWI also offers continuing education, through conferences, lectures, and symposia, and publishes the journal '' Contemporary Psychoanalysis'' Background William Alanson White was an American psychiatrist who became superintendent of the "Government Hospital for the Insane", later named St. Elizabeths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Rioch
Janet may refer to: Names * Janet (given name) * Janet (French singer) (1939–2011) Surname * Charles Janet (1849–1932), French engineer, inventor and biologist, known for the Left Step periodic table * Jules Janet (1861–1945), French psychologist and psychotherapist * Maurice Janet (1888–1983), French mathematician * Paul Janet (1823–1899), French philosopher and writer * Pierre Janet (1859–1947), French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist * Roberto Janet (born 1986), Cuban hammer thrower Other uses * Janet, Alberta, a Canadian hamlet * Janet (airline), a military transport fleet known for servicing the US Air Force "Area 51" facility * JANET, a high-speed network for the UK research and education community * ''Janet'' (album), by Janet Jackson * ''Janet'' (video), a video compilation by Janet Jackson * Janet, a character in the TV series ''The Good Place'' * Hurricane Janet, 1955 * Janet, a character in the video game ''Brawl Stars ''Brawl Stars'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Rioch
David McKenzie Rioch (July 6, 1900 – September 11, 1985) was a psychiatric research scientist and neuroanatomist, known as a pioneer in brain research and for leading the interdisciplinary neuropsychiatry division at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (1951–1970), a program that contributed to the formation of the then-nascent field of neuroscience. W. Maxwell Cowan, Donald H. Harter, and Eric R. Kandel cited "the seminal roles played by David McKenzie Rioch, Francis O. Schmitt, and... Stephen W. Kuffler in creating neuroscience as we now know it." Early life and career Rioch was born in Mussoorie, India, on July 6, 1900. His parents, David and Minnie, were Christian missionaries. He received a bachelor's degree from Butler College in 1920, after which he went on to receive a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1924. He then trained in surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, followed by the Strong Memorial Hospital. In 1928–9, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Stack Sullivan
Herbert "Harry" Stack Sullivan (February 21, 1892, Norwich, New York – January 14, 1949, Paris, France) was an American Neo-Freudian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who held that "personality can never be isolated from the complex interpersonal relationships in which person lives" and that " e field of psychiatry is the field of interpersonal relations under any and all circumstances in which uchrelations exist". Having studied therapists Sigmund Freud, Adolf Meyer, and William Alanson White, he devoted years of clinical and research work to helping people with psychotic illness. Early life Sullivan was a child of Irish immigrants and grew up in the then anti-Catholic town of Norwich, New York, resulting in a social isolation which may have inspired his later interest in psychiatry. He attended the Smyrna Union School, then spent two years at Cornell University from 1909, receiving his medical degree in Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery in 1917. Work Along with Clara T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Thompson
Clara Mabel Thompson, M.D. (October 3, 1893 in Providence, Rhode Island – December 20, 1958 in New York City) was a prominent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and co-founder of the William Alanson White Institute. She published articles and books about psychoanalysis as a whole and specifically about the psychology of women. Education Thompson graduated from the Women's College ( Pembroke College) at Brown University. In 1916, she went on to earn her Doctor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, initially interested in becoming a medical missionary before pursuing a career in psychoanalysis. She interned at the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, and she completed her residency in psychiatry at The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1925. Career Thompson established a private practice and taught at Vassar College and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She studied with Sándor Ferenczi, a pupil and colleague of Freud, in Budapest. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
