Paula Heimann

Paula Heimann born Klatzko ( born February 2, 1899 in Gdansk, † October 22, 1982 in London) was a major German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who established the element of countertransference as an important part of the psychoanalytic treatment technique.

Life in Germany

After studying medicine in Königsberg, Berlin and Frankfurt / Main, she completed her state exam in Wroclaw. There she met her future husband, the physician Franz Heimann, know. Together they went from 1924-1927 to Heidelberg, where she trained for a psychiatrist. In 1925 she wrote her dissertation. In the same year she brought her daughter to the world Mirza. In 1927 family moved to Berlin where she Heimann 1929 began her psychoanalytic training at specialist Theodor Reik. Together with her husband she was a member of the International Society of Doctors against the war.

Emigration

1933 had to leave because of his political views Paula Heimann's Husband Germany. He emigrated to Switzerland, Paula Heimann and her daughter but could not succeed. Therefore, mother and daughter emigrated to London.

In 1934 she became secretary Melanie Klein, began in 1935, an analysis with her, and was their close associates. My medical state examination she put 1938 in Edinburgh from. In the same year she was admitted to the lecture A contribution to the problem of sublimation in the British Psychoanalytical Society ( British Psychoanalytical Society). Heimann's contribution On counter - transference on the Psychoanalytic Congress in Zurich in 1949 led to a break with the small group, as they represented a derogation from the Kleinian conception of the importance of countertransference. Melanie Klein saw in it only an error of the analytical process. For Paula Heimann, however, the emotional reaction of the analyst to his patients was an important tool for the exploration of the unconscious. Then she turned to the group of " Independent " and was 1958/59 the analyst Margarete Mitscherlich. Her Lehranalysanden counted Alexander Mitscherlich.

Works

• On counter transference. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis. Bd.31, 1950, p.81 - 84th
• About Children and Children -No -Longer, HG: Margaret ton man, Vol 10, in: The New Library of Psychoanalysis, Published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 1990, ISBN 0-415-04119-8
• Comments for sublimation. In: Psychology of the self. University Press, Darmstadt 1974