(1959). Bulletin of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 15:745-746 The Association reports with regret the death of the following members: Dr. Jacob E. Finesinger—June 19, 1959 Dr. Flanders Dunbar—August 21, 1959 Dr. Gregory Zilboorg—September 17, 1959 Dr. Bela Mittelmann—October 4, 1959 Dr. Eduard Hitschmann, after Jekels' death the Nestor of Psychoanalysis, died at the age of 86 in Cambridge, Mass., where he had lived and worked since 1940. Dr. Hitschmann was born in Vienna, where he graduated from the Gymnasium and from Medical School and where he was active as a physician and psychoanalyst till 1938. His training in medicine was unusually thorough and engaged him in rotating residencies at the famous Allgemeine Krankenhaus for eight years. He emerged from it as a brilliant clinician and outstanding diagnostician. But his life interest became psychoanalysis. In 1905 he joined the little group which gathered every Wednesday at Freud's house and out of which the psychoanalytic movement grew to span the [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
