Wilhelm Robert Fliess ( ; 29 December 1895 – 9 May 1970) was a German-American physician and

psychoanalyst PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious processes and their influence on conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on dream interpretation, psychoanalysis is also a talk th ...

. He was the son of

Wilhelm Fliess Wilhelm Fliess ( ; 24 October 1858 – 13 October 1928) was a German otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. He developed the pseudoscientific theory of human biorhythms and a possible nasogenital connection that have not been accepted by ...

, a controversial

otolaryngologist Otorhinolaryngology ( , abbreviated ORL and also known as otolaryngology, otolaryngology–head and neck surgery (ORL–H&N or OHNS), or ear, nose, and throat (ENT)) is a surgical subspecialty within medicine that deals with the surgical an ...

whose pseudoscientific theories influenced

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( ; ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating psychopathology, pathologies seen as originating fro ...

. He coined the term ambulatory psychosis. He wrote about

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and hinted that his father had abused him. He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a physician. His cousin

Beate Hermelin Beate Marianne E Hermelin, (''née'' Fliess; 7 August 1919 – 14 January 2007), affectionately known as Ati, was a German-born experimental psychologist, who worked in the UK and was a pioneer in the experimental study of autism. Her numerous sc ...

was a German-born experimental psychologist, who worked in the UK. He died of liver cancer in 1970.Rhode Island, Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008

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*''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 1: Erogeneity and Libido : Addenda to the Theory of the Psychosexual Development of the Human'' *''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 2: Ego and Body Ego: Contributions to Their Psychoanalytic Psychology'' *''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 3: Symbol, Dream and Psychosis''

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