Ruth Mack Brunswick, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ruth Mack Brunswick

American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst

Date of Birth: 17-Feb-1897

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 24-Jan-1946

Profession: psychiatrist, psychoanalyst

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Ruth Jane Mack Brunswick (February 17, 1897 – January 24, 1946), born Ruth Jane Mack, was an American psychiatrist.
Mack was initially a student and later a close confidant of and collaborator with Sigmund Freud and was responsible for much of the fleshing out of Freudian theory.
Dr.
Brunswick was charming, intelligent, feminine, and vivacious.
Her generosity drove her to help many of her friends to leave Austria once the Nazis invaded it.
She also had to leave Vienna to save her own life.
Dr.
Brunswick pioneered the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses, and the study of emotional development between young children and their mothers, and the importance of this relationship in creating mental illness.
[1] Ruth Jane Mack Brunswick, born Ruth Jane Mack, was born in February 17, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois and was raised in Cincinnati.
She went to Radcliffe College in 1914 and planned on going to Harvard to receive medical education, but was denied due to her gender and graduated from Tufts University instead.
Her work was noticed by Sigmund Freud and began working with him to develop psychoanalysis in Vienna.