Edward Bibring (20 April 1894, Stanislau,

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– 11 January 1959,

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) was an Austrian-born American

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. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Czernowitz until

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. After his military service, he went to study medicine at the

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, and later was accepted for training by the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, in which he became an associate member from 1925, and then a full member in 1927. He was closely associated with

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. He was a co-editor of the '' Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse'' for a brief period. In 1921, he married his fellow analyst Grete L. Bibring, and in 1941 the pair emigrated to the US.

Writings

His publications focus on scientific contributions to the theory of psychoanalytic therapy, the study of depression, and the history of psychoanalysis. Bibring's early writings included studies of the instincts and of the repetition compulsion. He also wrote a pair of articles on

paranoia Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety, suspicion, or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of co ...

in schizophrenia, including a case study of a woman who believed herself to be persecuted by someone called "Behind", a figure onto whom she had

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aspects of her own rear.

Ernest Jones Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...

reported with approval Bibring's measured disagreement with Freud's concept of the

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: "Instincts of life and death are not psychologically perceptible as such; they are biological instincts whose existence is required by hypothesis alone... ought only to be adduced in a theoretical context and not in discussion of a clinical or empirical nature". While struggling with

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in the States, Bibring did publish a 1954 article on the role of

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in what he called "emotional reliving" – a theme later developed by Vamik Volkan in his re-grief therapy.

References

External links

Bibring, Edward

Edward Bibring papers, 1929-1960 (inclusive), 1941-1958 (bulk), H MS c283. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bibring, Edward 1894 births 1959 deaths American psychoanalysts Analysands of Paul Federn University of Vienna alumni Austrian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American psychologists

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