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FENICHEL Hanna
Date of birth : October 22, 1897, Berlin.
Date of death : October 12, 1975, Los Angeles.
Place of living : 12403 Third Helena Drive, Brentwood.
Portrait :
Practise: psychoanalyst.
Story :
Her father Ernst Heilborn was assistant director for AEG company.
After private school and Berlin diocese girl school, since 1916 she started socio-pedadogy studies and worked for several years in this way.
In 1922 she graduated and registered at theAfter one year, she changed for chemistry studies and graduated as "doctor" in this speciality in 1932.
At the beginning of the 30's, she applied for the training course of the Psychoanalysis Institute in Berlin.
In 1933, she emigrated to Paris, then a year later to Prague, where she completed her training at the psychoanalysis study group.
Her teacher and analyst was probably Frances Deri; the analysis supervisor was Otto Fenichel (December 2, 1897, Berlin - January 22, 1946, Los Angeles) who later would become her husband.
In 1938 she became member of the WPV (Viennes Psychoanalytical Society). She emigrated to the USA and settled in Los Angeles.In 1940, she married Otto Fenichel (
), she had known through his first wife, Cläre Fenichel. Himself was psychoanalyst (Cf.Marianne Kris), and she was friend with the Greensons.She became member of the new Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Study Group where she taught analysis.
She specialized in precocious children field.
As famous psychoanalyst and special ed, she worked on child development with the School for Nursery Years de Los Angeles.
She also militated in the Marxist environment of the Psycholanalytic Institute.
According to her wish, in 1975, the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society became the Fenichel Center for Child Development.
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