1897, Dec. 2Born, Vienna, Austria1921M.D., University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria1922Moved to Berlin, Germany, to complete training at the Berlin
Psychoanalytic Institute19231925Assistant and training analyst at Berlin Psychoanalytic
Clinic, Berlin, Germany1926Married Clare Nathansohn (divorced 1940)1929Traveled to the Soviet Union (also in 1932 and 1934)1933Left Berlin, Germany, because of political climateMoved to Oslo, Norway, to train psychoanalysts1934Published
The Outline of Clinical Psychoanalysis (New York:
Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press and W. W. Norton Co. 492 pp.)1935Moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to train
psychoanalysts1938Immigrated to Los Angeles, Calif.1939Published
Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique (Albany, New
York: Psychoanalytic Quarterly Press. 130 pp.)1940Married Hanna Heilborn 1945Published
The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (New York: W.
W. Norton & Co. 703 pp.)1946, Jan. 22Died, Los Angeles, Calif.19531954Posthumous publication of
Collected Papers of Otto Fenichel (New York: W. W.
Norton & Co. 2 vols.)From the guide to the Otto Fenichel and Hanna Fenichel Papers, 1934-1953, (bulk 1938-1945), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)