Sabina Spielrein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sabina Spielrein

Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1885

Place of Birth: Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 11-Aug-1942

Profession: psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, essayist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sabina Spielrein

  • Sabina Nikolayevna Spielrein (Russian: ?????? ?????????? ?????????, IPA: [s?'b?in? n??k?'laj?vn? ?p??l?'r?jn]; 25 October 1885 OS – 11 August 1942) was a Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts. She was in succession the patient, then student, then colleague of Carl Gustav Jung, with whom she had an intimate relationship during 1908–1910, as is documented in their correspondence from the time and her diaries.
  • She also met, corresponded, and had a collegial relationship with Sigmund Freud.
  • One of her more famous analysands was the Swiss developmental psychologist, Jean Piaget.
  • She worked as a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, teacher and paediatrician in Switzerland and Russia.
  • In a thirty-year professional career, she published over 35 papers in three languages (German, French and Russian), covering psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, psycholinguistics and educational psychology.
  • Her best known and perhaps most influential published work in the field of psychoanalysis is the essay titled "Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being", written in German in 1912.
  • Sabina was also known as the pioneer of psychoanalysis and one of the first people to introduce the death instinct.
  • She was one of the first people to conduct a case study on schizophrenia and have a dissertation appear in psychoanalytic journal.Although Spielrein has been mainly remembered on account of her relationship with Jung, and has sometimes been the subject of lurid speculation, she is now increasingly recognized as an important and innovative thinker who was marginalized in history because of her unusual eclecticism, refusal to join factions, feminist approach to psychology, and her death in the Holocaust.

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