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Helen Deutsch (March 21, 1906 – March 15, 1992) was an American screenwriter, journalist, and songwriter. Biography. Deutsch was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College. She began her career by managing the Provincetown Players.
Helen Deutsch teaches and researches at the crossroads of eighteenth-century studies and disability studies, with particular emphases on questions of authorship, originality, and embodiment across a variety of genres.
Helene Deutsch was a mentee of Sigmund Freud’s and the first psychoanalyst to write a book on female psychology. Although she remained loyal to Freud’s conceptual framework, her emphasis on female libido and the significance of motherhood was an outgrowth of her own insight.
Helene Deutsch was a strong woman, who, by her radicalism, helped carve the way for all women in medicine, psychology, and all careers. Early Life and Family. Deutsch was born in Przemysl, a non-Russian part of Poland (Uglow, 1999; Wisdom, 1987).
Helene Deutsch was one of the most prominent female leaders in psychoanalysis. She was the first woman to lead Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and she contributed significantly to theory on the psychology of women that expanded the purview of Freud’s male-dominant ideas about women.
Student and protégé of Sigmund Freud, Helene Deutsch was one of the most influential psychoanalysts of her time. An early woman analyst, Deutsch was an ardent feminist and a leading proponent of Freud's controversial theories about the psychology of women.
Helene Deutsch (Fig. 15.1) was an eminent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, the first director of the Training Institute of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society, and a lec-turer at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, where she influenced a generation of American psychoanalysts and social scientists.
