biography
pronunciation:
[riyk]
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| lived:
| (1888–1969)
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| biography:
| Psychoanalyst, born in Vienna, Austria. He became a close friend and protégé of Sigmund Freud after they met in 1910. He studied at Vienna, where he practised as a psychoanalyst (1918–28), then taught at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute until 1933, when he fled the Nazis to The Hague. In 1938 he emigrated to the USA, establishing a private practice in New York City, and becoming a US citizen in 1944. In 1946 he established the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis when the American Psychoanalytic Association refused him full membership due to his not being a physician. He emphasized the role of intuition in treatment, and diverged from certain orthodox Freudian views, but maintained his friendship with Freud until the latter's death. His many works include Listening With the Third Ear (1948) and Curiosities of the Self (1965). |
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