Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (October 23, 1889 - 1957) was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who emigrated to America during World War Two. October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that studies and treats mental and emotional disorders (see mental illness). ... Contemporary is an adjective which in its basic form merely means that two individuals, events or movements overlapped in time. ... Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939; IPA pronunciation: []) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

She was born to Alfred and Klara Reichmann on 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany. She was raised in an Orthodox middle-class German Jewish family. She was the eldest daughter in a family of all girls. Because Alfred Reichmann had no son, Frieda was granted privileges other Orthodox Jewish women were not allowed. Her father Alfred encouraged her to go to medical school and become a doctor. Frieda attended the medical school in Koenigsberg in 1908. She completed her psychiatric residency in 1911. Reichmann, Reichman, Rajchman (ריכמן ,רייכמן, רײַכ(×—)מאַן, Райхман): Reichmann family, a family best known for controlling the Olympia and York business empire Samuel Reichmann, Hungarian merchant (cf. ... Karlsruhe (population 283,959 in 2005) is a city in the south west of Germany, in the Bundesland Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border. ... Orthodox Judaism is one of the three major branches of Judaism. ... Government Russia District Subdivision Russia Northwestern Federal District Kaliningrad Oblast Mayor Yuri Savenko (2005) Geographical characteristics Area  - City 215. ...

During World War One she ran a clinic treating brain-injured German soldiers.

When Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany and Jews began to be persecuted, Frieda moved to France and then later to the United States where her husband Erich Fromm, from whom she had long been separated, got her a job as a psychiatrist at Chestnut Lodge, a mental hospital in Maryland. Hitler redirects here. ... Erich Fromm Erich Pinchas Fromm (March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was an internationally renowned German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher. ... Chestnut Lodge (formerly known as Woodlawn Hotel) is a historic building in Rockville, Maryland. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Her most famous patient is Joanne Greenberg who wrote a fictionalized autobiography of her time at the mental hospital entitled I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. Joanne Greenberg (b,. Brooklyn 1932 ) is an American author most well known for the bestselling novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden written under the pen name of Hannah Green, which was adapted into a 1977 movie of the same name. ... I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is an autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. ...

Sources:

• "Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy" by Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, Publisher: University Of Chicago Press, 1960, ISBN 0-226-26599-4
• Hornstein, Gail A. (2000). To Redeem One Person Is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. New York: Other Press.

See also

• Psychoanalysis

Critical: Psychoanalysis is a family of psychological theories and methods based on the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud. ...

• An Analysis Of The Shadow Side Of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann