Brunswick, Ruth Mack

Biographical Note

• 1897, Feb. 17: Born, Chicago, Ill.
• 1918: Graduated, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass. Married Hermann Blumgart (divorced 1926)
• 1922: M.D., Tufts University, Medford, Mass. Began analysis with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Austria
• 1925: Established psychoanalytic practice, Vienna, Austria Member, Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Vienna, Austria
• 1926 - 1927 : Treated Sergius Pankejeff, a former analysand of Sigmund Freud and the subject of Freud’s “Wolf Man” case study
• 1928: Married Mark Brunswick (divorced 1937; remarried six months later; divorced 1940) Published “A Supplement to ‘History of an Infantile Neurosis,’” The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis (9:439-476)
• 1929 - 1938 : Resumed analysis of Sergius Pankejeff on an irregular basis
• 1932: Became an editor of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly
• 1938: Left Vienna, Austria, and established a private practice in New York, N.Y. Joined New York Psychoanalytic Society, New York, N.Y.
• 1940: Published “The Preoedipal Phase of the Libido Development,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly (9:293-319)
• 1946, Jan. 24: Died, New York, N.Y.

From the guide to the Ruth Mack Brunswick Papers, 1921-1943, (bulk 1926-1938), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)