Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian psychoanalyst
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Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
About Hermine Hug-Hellmuth
- Hermine Hug-Hellmuth (born Hermine Hug Edle von Hugenstein; 31 August 1871, Vienna – 9 September 1924, Vienna) was an Austrian psychoanalyst.
- She is regarded as the first psychoanalyst practicing with children.Her book, A Young Girl's Diary (1921), published in New York by Thomas Seltzer, and prefaced with an enthusiastic letter from Sigmund Freud dated 27 April 1915.
- Hug-Hellmuth denied authorship, since she published the diary under the pseudonym Grete Lainer.
- Hug-Hellmuth ultimately accepted title of editor for the dairy in the third German edition in 1923.
- Written from a psychoanalyst perspective, the work which included Freudian theories to explain phenomena.
- It was praised within the field of psychoanalysis.
- It is one of the most cited contributions to child psychoanalysis.She became a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society from 1913 to 1924 but was murdered by her nephew, Rudolf Hug, on 9 September 1924.
- Rudolf later claimed that his life was ruined due to the psychoanalytical experiments Hug-Hellmuth performed on him.
- Her work influenced such notable psychoanalysts as Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Jean Berges and Gabriel Balbo.
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