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Creator:Helene (Rosenbach) Deutsch, 1884-1982
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\hB4cf!g0Abstract:Correspondence, photographs, notebooks, etc., of Helene Deutsch, psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer.

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;Z^HY e%o}vgw0BIOGRAPHY

Helene (Rosenbach) Deutsch, psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer, was born on October 9, 1884, in Przemysl, Galicia (Austria-Hungary), the youngest daughter of Regina and Wilhelm Rosenbach; her father was a prominent lawyer.  At age sixteen, HD fell in love with Herman Lieberman, a lawyer and leader of the Polish Social Democratic Party, and became an ardent political activist, organizing strikes and campaigning for the rights of women to education and employment.  In 1907 she followed HL to Vienna where he was elected to parliament, and enrolled in the Medical School of the University of Vienna.  She was soon absorbed in the study of medicine and in 1912, shortly before her graduation, married Dr. Felix Deutsch, an internist.  Their son Martin was born in 1917.  During World War I, HD gained clinical experience in psychiatry at the Wagner-Jauregg Clinic in Vienna.  She was the first of Sigmund Freud's women students to undergo analysis with him, and she became a member of his circle of friends and colleagues.  A respected teacher and diagnostician, she founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute in 1924, and was its director for nine years.  With the rise of Hitler, the Deutsches left Austria in 1934 and came to Boston, where HD resumed private practice and was an active member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society.  HD was the author of The Psychology of Women, a two-volume study (1944, 1945); Neuroses and Character Types: Clinical Psychoanalytic Studies (1965); Selected Problems of Adolescence (1967); and Confrontations With Myself (1973), an autobiography.  She died in Cambridge on March 29, 1982.  For a detailed account of her life, seeHelene Deutsch, A Psychoanalyst's Life, by Paul Roazen (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985).

SCOPE AND CONTENT

These papers include personal and professional correspondence, photographs, notebooks, research notes, articles and book reviews, scholarly papers by HD and others, clippings, and a diary that Paul Roazen claims to be by HD (see 83v).  There are also letters to FD from his childhood friend, Paul Barnay, and FD's correspondence with professional journals.  Some of the correspondence is in German, Polish, or French, and a portion of it consists of photocopies of original letters; the originals are believed to have been destroyed.  The bulk of the personal letters is to HD from HL, FD, and SD; and from HD to FD.  The professional correspondence concerns conferences, publications, and other scholarly endeavors.  Notebooks and research notes by HD are in English and German and generally contain quick jottings taken down while reading, or early drafts of books and articles.  HD's papers pertaining specifically to the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute are available at the BPI.

Letters to HD containing sensitive personal information have been photocopied and identifying information removed (see #29-31).  The originals are closed to research until January 1, 2035.

Most folder headings have been supplied by the processors; original headings are in quotation marks.

There are related materials at the Schlesinger Library; see Helene Deutsch Papers, 1922-1992(MC 578).

CONTAINER LIST

• Carton 1:  1-30
• Carton 2:  31-84v

INVENTORY

• 1-41:  Correspondence
  • 1-3:  HL to HD in Polish (photocopies)
    • 1.  1905-1908
    • 2.  1909-1910(?)
    • 3.  1909-1928; includes postcard to HL.
  • 4-13: FD to HD in German
    • 4.  1911-1913
    • 5.  1914
    • 6.  January-March 1923
    • 7.  April-July 1923
    • 8.  Fall 1923
    • 9.  1922-1926, 1933, n.d.
    • 10.  1935
    • 11.  1939; includes letter to FD.
    • 12.  1940
    • 13.  1941, 1963
  • 14-21: HD to FD in German
    • 14.  1911-1913; includes letters to FD from others.
    • 15.  1914
    • 16.  1923; includes letter to HD.  
    • 17.  1918-1924
    • 18.  1925-1935
    • 19.  1939
    • 20.  1940
    • 21.  1941
  • 22-27: To HD and FD, mainly from SD
    • 22.  1930, from MD
    • 23.  1944; includes ALS from MD.
    • 24.  1945; includes 2 ALS from MD, one to Arthur Robertsre: MD's appointment at MIT.
    • 25.  1946
    • 26.  1948-1949(?), 1972-1974; includes letters from other family members.
    • 27.  n.d.; includes poem by Peter Deutsch, HD's grandson.
  • 28-32: To HD from colleagues,  students, publishers,  friends, et al.; some in  French, German, or Polish; most are photocopies.
    • 28.  1923-1971 (scattered); includes some originals.
    • 29.  1972-1976; includes some originals.
    • 30.  Re: Confrontations With Myself, 1972-1978; includes some originals.
    • 31.  1977-1978, n.d.
    • 32.  From HD, ts. photocopies, 1926-1978 (scattered), n.d.; some in German or Polish; includes some originals.
  • 33-37: Correspondence filed by author, 1931-1978 (scattered), n.d.
    • 33.  A-I; includes letters from Marie Bonaparte and Sigmund Freud.
    • 34.  J-N
    • 35.  O-Z
    • 36.  Postcards from SD and Nicholas Deutsch, HD's grandson, 1973, n.d.
    • 37.  Unidentified
  • 38-41: Correspondence of FD
    • 38.  Letters to FD from Paul Barnay, 1910-1941; in German.
    • 39-41: With journals; some in  German.
      • 39.  "Acta Medica Orientalia," 1946-1958
      • 40.  "Psychosomatic Medicine Journal," 1948-1957
      • 41.  "Frosch, Dr. (Editorial Board, Amer. Psychoanal. Assoc.)," 1953-1958

• 42.  Miscellaneous personal papers, including bookplates; pamphlets; program; essay, ts., 1943.

• 43-55+: Photographs, most n.d.
  FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.
  • 43.  Early family photographs; includes HL.
  • 44.  Portraits of HD
  • 45.  Portraits and snapshots of FD, 1960, n.d.
  • 46.  Two albums:  Askona, 1912-1934; unidentified.
  • 47.  Snapshots of HD and FD
  • 48.  Portraits and snapshots of family, including MD, SD, and sons
  • 49f.  HD, 1945; MD; HD's grandsons, Peter and Nicholas,1950.
  • 50.  MD (?)
  • 51.  Miscellaneous snapshots
  • 52.  Shapshots of Babayaga Farm
  • 53.  Color snapshots
  • 54.  Snapshots of Freud, and HD and Freud; also First Stockbridge Congress on Child Analysis, 1950.
  • 55+ .  XI International Psycho-Analytical Congress, Oxford, 1929

• 56v-72v: Notebooks re: HD's reading and writings
  • 56v.  "Zur Autobiographie," n.d.
  • 57v.  "Autobiography," in German, 1970
  • 58v-59v.  Autobiographical notes in German, 1970
  • 60v.  n.d.
  • 61v.  Re:  female sexuality and The Psychology of Women, n.d.
  • 62v.  Re:  female sexuality, n.d.
  • 63v.  "Girls and Jacobsen," n.d.
  • 64v.  "Infantilism, Literature and Cases," n.d.
  • 65v.  "Litterature [sic] not Analytic," n.d.
  • 66v.  "Psychoanalytic Litterature [sic]," n.d.
  • 67v.  "Women-Developmental," n.d.
  • 68v.  Re:  women's psychology, n.d.
  • 69v.  Re:  women's psychology, in German and English, n.d.
  • 70v.  Re:  youth, n.d.
  • 71v.  Re:  readings; drafts of letters in German and English, n.d.
  • 72v.  Miscellaneous, in German, n.d.

• 73-75:  Research notes, n.d.
  • 73.  Re:  girls
  • 74.  Re:  "general, boys"
  • 75.  Miscellaneous

• 76.  "At Apollo," notes by HD, printed and typed papers by others re:  mythology

• 77.  Articles by HD, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1981-1983

• 78.  Articles and book reviews re: HD, 1944, 1970-1977,1983-1984, n.d.; includes photostats of certificates re: HD's work with Drs. Karplus and Wagner-Jauregg,1918; bibliography of works by HD through 1969; and obituary.

• 79f.  Clippings, articles re: Confrontations, 1973-1976

• 80f+.  Clippings re: young people, sexual mores, etc., some annotated by HD, 1965-1974, n.d.

• 81f+.  Clippings of interest to HD re: computers, young people, etc., 1964-1966, n.d.  

• 82.  Articles and papers by others; includes paper read in honor of HD and FD, 1955.

• 83v.  Diary by Maedi Fournier, 1900-1904.  Perhaps by HD, although not in her usual hand.  See Paul Roazen, Helene Deutsch, A Psychoanalyst's Life (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor/Doubleday, 1985), pp. 18-27.

Additional catalog entries

The following items have been removed from the collection and donated to the Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, in May 1986:

• "President's Newsletter of the International Psycho-Analytical Association," vol. IV, no. 1; vol. V, no. 1; vol. VII, no. 1; vol. VIII, no. 2

The following item has been removed from the collection and donated to the MIT Archives in February 1986:

• Poster advertisiing concert at Massachusetts Institute of Technology