Fenichel, Otto

Dates:
Birth 1987
Death 1946
German, English,

Biographical notes:

Psychoanalyst; b. 1897; married Hanna Heilborn, lay analyst, in 1940; d. 1946.

From the description of Otto and Hanna Heilborn Fenichel papers, 1934-1945 (bulk 1938-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 28415941

Otto Fenichel (1897-1946), psychoanalyst and author. Hanna Heilborn, lay analyst, married Fenichel in 1940.

From the description of Otto Fenichel and Hanna Fenichel papers, 1934-1953 (bulk 1938-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983187

Fenichel was born on Dec. 2, 1897 in Vienna; MD, Univ. of Vienna, 1921; at age 17, decided to become a psychoanalyst and began his training while a medical student; moved to Berlin in 1922 to complete his training at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute; appointed an asst. (1923) and a training analyst (1925) at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Clinic; traveled to the Soviet Union in 1929 and 1932; in 1933 went to Oslo to undertake the training of psychoanalysts, and did the same in Prague two years later; fleeing the Nazis, he moved to Los Angeles in 1938; Fenichel was a Marxist, and insisted that psychology needed to be studied in a societal context; publications include The outline of clinical psychoanalysis (1934), Problems of psychoanalytic technique (1941) and The psychoanalytic theory of neurosis (1945); he died on Jan. 22, 1946.

From the description of Papers, 1903-1953. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41611140

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Subjects:

  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalysts

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Lay analysts
  • Psychoanalysts
  • Psychoanalysts
  • Women psychoanalysts

Places:

  • Middle West (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • California (as recorded)
  • Czech Republic--Prague (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)
  • Middle West (as recorded)
  • Norway--Oslo (as recorded)