Each life story is unique yet each also entwines with other stories sharing recurring themes linked to issues of gender Jewishness women's education politics and migration. The book's first section discusses relatively known analysts such as Sabina Spielrein Lou Andreas-Salomé and Beata Rank remembered largely as someone's wife lover or muse; and the second part sheds light on women such as Margarethe Hilferding Tatiana Rosenthal and Erzsébet Farkas who took strong political stances. In the third section the biographies of lesser-known analysts like Ludwika Karpińska-Woyczyńska Nic Waal Barbara Low and Vilma Kovács are discussed in the context of their importance for the early Freudian movement; and in the final section the lives of Eugenia Sokolnicka Sophie Morgenstern Alberta Szalita and Olga Wermer are examined in relation to migration and exile trauma loss and memory. With a clear focus upon the continued importance of these women for psychoanalytic theory and practice as well as discussion that engages with pertinent issues such as gendered discrimination inhumane immigration laws and antisemitism this book is an important reading for students scholars and practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as those involved in gender and women's studies and Jewish and Holocaust studies. |Early Women Psychoanalysts History Biography and Contemporary Relevance | Mental Health
