Federn, Paul

New York psychoanalyst.

From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1947. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585649

Biographical Note

• 1871, Oct. 13: Born, Vienna, Austria
• 1895: Graduated, Medical School, University of Vienna, Austria
• 1895 - 1902 : Internship, General Hospital, Vienna, Austria
• 1902: Established practice specializing in internal medicine Introduced to Sigmund Freud
• 1904: Joined the inner circle of Sigmund Freud as an adherent of psychoanalysis
• 1905: Married Wilma Bauer (died 1949)
• 1908: Helped organize Vienna Psychoanalytic Society; named comptroller of the society
• 1914: Traveled to New York, N.Y., to treat a patient, lecture, and tour
• 1914 - 1918 : Served as a doctor in the Austrian army
• 1924: Elected vice president of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society; became personal deputy to Sigmund Freud
• 1926: Selected as coeditor of Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse
• 1938: Emigrated from Vienna, Austria, and settled in New York, N.Y.
• 1940: Developed concept of "ego diseases"
• 1944: Expanded concepts of "dream phenomenon" and the "dreaming ego"
• 1946: Granted a license to practice medicine in New York
• 1950, May 4: Died, New York, N.Y.
• 1952: Posthumous publication of Ego Psychology and the Psychoses, edited with an introduction by Edoardo Weiss (New York: Basic Books. 375 pp.)

From the guide to the Paul Federn Papers, 1864-1975, (bulk 1895-1950), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)