Edith Jacobson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edith Jacobson

American German-born MD & psychoanalyst

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1897

Place of Birth: Chojnów, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 08-Dec-1978

Profession: physician, psychoanalyst

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Edith Jacobson (German: Edith Jacobssohn; September 10, 1897 – December 8, 1978) was a German psychoanalyst.
Her major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking dealt with the development of the sense of identity and self-esteem and with an understanding of depression and psychosis.
She was able to integrate the tripartite structural model of classic psychoanalysis with the theory of object relations into a revised drive theory.
Thereby, she increased the treatment possibilities of the more disturbed pre-oedipal patients.