Helene Deutsch Quotes

Helene Deutsch was born in Przemyśl, Poland. She was an American psychoanalyst. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women. She studied medicine and psychiatry in Vienna and Munich. She became a pupil and then assistant to Freud, and became the first woman to concern herself with the psychology of women. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1975. She wrote several books include: The psychology of women, A psychoanalytic study of the myth of Dionysus and Apollo, Confrontations with myself, and Psychoanalysis of the Sexual Functions of Women.