Hilde Bruch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Hilde Bruch

American psychoanalyst & MD

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1904

Place of Birth: Dülken, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1984

Profession: psychiatrist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Hilde Bruch (March 11, 1904 – December 15, 1984) was a German-born American psychoanalyst, known foremost for her work on eating disorders and obesity. Bruch emigrated to the United States in 1934.
She worked and studied at various medical facilities in New York City and Baltimore before becoming a professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1964. In 1973 she published her seminal work Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Person Within.
This book was based on observations and treatments of eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa, over several decades.
In 1978 she published The Golden Cage: the Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa, a distillation of Eating Disorders aimed at the lay reader.
Her other works include Don't Be Afraid of Your Child (1952), The Importance of Overweight (1957), and Learning Psychotherapy: Rationale and Ground Rules (1974).
A final work,Conversations with Anorexics (1988) was published posthumously.