Tatiana Rosenthal or Rozenthal (1885–1921) was a Russian Empire psychoanalyst, physician and specialist in neurology.Anna Maria Accerboni, 'Rosenthal, Tatiana (1885-1921)', in Alain de Mijolla (ed.), ''International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis'', Thomson Gale, 200

Life

Tatiana Rosenthal was born in St Petersburg in 1885. A supporter of the

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, she then went to Switzerland, where she studied medicine at the

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. After gaining her medical diploma, she went to Vienna, where she was a member of

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's Wednesday Group in Vienna, the forerunner of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. In 1911 she published a paper on the Danish writer Karen Michaelis, 'The dangerous age of Karen Michaelis in light of psychoanalysis', which pioneered the use of

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in literary criticism. At the beginning of

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, Rosenthal returned to

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, where she worked as a neurologist at Vladimir Bekhterev’s Brain Institute. Bekhterev, though not himself converted to psychoanalysis, appointed Rosenthal as the head of the outpatient clinic, and allowed her to treat neurotic patients there with psychoanalysis. In that way, she became the founder of

in St Petersburg. Interested in the psychology of art, Rosenthal published a 1920 paper which tried to explain Dostoevsky’s creative writing by his personal suffering. While in St Petersburg, she had a child. In 1921 she committed suicide.

Works

* 'Stradanie i tvortchestvo v Dostoïevskoni' uffering and creation in Dostoyevski ''Voprosi psychologiu litschnosty'', 1920

References

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