Frances Deri (née Franziska Herz, 1880–1971) was an Austrian psychoanalyst who moved to the States on the eve of World War Two, and practised in California where she died in February 1971. She married Dr Max Deri.

Training and contributions

After initially working in Germany as a midwife, Deri was analysed at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, first by Karl Abraham, and then by

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becoming herself a

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. With the rise of the Nazis, she moved to Prague, where she became a member of the Prague Psychoanalytic Study Group alongside such figures as

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, Theodor Dosuzkov, Steff Bornstein before emigrating to America in 1935. She was one of the first (and few) lay analysts to be accepted into the American psychoanalytic community, and practised in Los Angeles, where she could pursue her passion for the cinema. She was associated with the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute. She published articles on insomnia and

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, as well as contributing to the analysis of coprophilia, and to the fantasy of being part of the partner's body in sexual submission.

, ''The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis'' (1946) p. 673 and p. 353

Articles

*'On Sublimation', ''Psychoanalytic Quarterly'' VIII (1939) *'On Neurotic Disturbances of Sleep', ''International Journal of Psychoanalysis'' XXIII, 1942

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deri, Frances 1880 births 1971 deaths Austrian psychoanalysts Austrian expatriates in the United States

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