Ruth Mack Brunswick

Ruth Mack Brunswick ( born February 17, 1897 in Chicago, † January 24, 1946 in New York City ) was an American psychoanalyst.

She was born under the name Ruth Jane Mack. Her parents William and Jessie Julian Mack had German - Jewish roots. In 1917 she married the cardiologist Hermann Ludwig Blumgart, which made them aware of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud, and of which she was divorced in 1924. Even from her second husband, the composer Mark Brunswick, she was divorced.

In 1922 she received her PhD successfully as a Doctor of Medicine at Tufts Medical School in Boston, after they had been refused a student at Harvard because of their gender.

In the same year she went to Vienna to can be analyzed by Sigmund Freud and was soon the inner circle of his followers. Freud had his patients Sergius Pankejeff ( known as the "Wolf Man " ) to Brunswick. From 1926 to 1932 graduated Max Schur ( who later became Freud's personal physician ) with her training analysis. The Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in 1930, she took on as a member.

Brunswick devoted her psychoanalytic research the development of the emotional bond between mother and child and the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses.

Brunswick in 1938 fled from the Nazis in Vienna and settled in Washington, DC down as a psychoanalyst and was training analyst of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. She died in 1946 in New York City.

Works (selection)

• The analysis of jealousy delusion. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis ( IGP ) 14 ( 1928), pp. 459-507.
• A dream of a Japanese novel of the eleventh century. In: Imago 14 (1928 ), pp. 147f.
• A note on the childish theory of coitus a tergo. In: International Journal of Psychoanalysis (IJP ) 10 ( 1929), pp. 93-95.
• The pre - oedipal phase of the libido development. In: Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 9 (1940 ), pp. 293-319.