Melitta Schmideberg

Melitta Schmideberg ca. 1925

Melitta Schmideberg (1904-1983) was a psychoanalyst and author who was the only daughter of Melanie Klein.

Biography

Born in Slovakia in 1904, Melitta grew up in Budapest, and trained as a psychoanalyst at the Berlin Institute.[1] There she met Walter Schmideberg, another psychoanalyst, whom she married in 1924.

In 1932, along with her mother, she moved to London and joined the British Psychoanalytical Society as associate member. Entering further analysis with Edward Glover,[2] she became a partisan with him in their vocal dispute with her own mother Melanie Klein;[3] and later resigned from the Society in 1944[4] to concentrate on her work with juvenile delinquency.[5] She is sometimes seen as an extreme example of the bitterness that can be instilled by having an analytic parent.[6]

She died in 1983.[7]

Publications

Early articles

In the thirties Schmideberg published a series of articles in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, on subjects ranging from the asocial child to intellectual inhibitions.[8]

Blitz studies

During The Blitz, Schmideberg published a set of observations on reactions to the air-raids in London, noting increases in localism, in drinking and (especially in women) sexual desire.[9]

Books

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ M. Shapira, The War Inside (2013) p. 148
  2. ↑ M. Shapira, The War Inside (2013) p. 57
  3. ↑ P. Gay, Freud (1989) p. 466
  4. ↑ Pearl King; Riccardo Steine. The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941-45. p. 17.
  5. ↑ M. Shapira, The War Inside (2013) p. 148
  6. ↑ J. Pearson, Analyst of the Imagination (2004) p. 49
  7. ↑ Edward Bibring; Sanford Gifford (2005). Edward Bibring Photographs the Psychoanalysts of His Time: 1932 - 1938. Taylor & Francis. p. 203. ISBN 9783898064958.
  8. ↑ Otto Fenichel, The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis (1946) p. 652
  9. ↑ J. Gardiner, The Blitz (2011) p. 182-4

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