title: Frieda Fromm-Reichmann: a seminar in the history of psychiatry. VI. Freida Fromm-Reichmann, the early years.
abstract: As other panelists have indicated, Frieda Reichmann was born on October 23, 1889, in the German town of Karlsruhe, which lies just north of the Black Forest and only a few miles east of the Rhine. Her parents' circumstances were modest but, as they would have said, "gut bürgerlich," solidly rooted in middle-class respectability. On her fathers' side, the family traced its origins back to the 16th century, when all Jews were expelled from a small town in central Germany called Feuchtwanger. Some of the refugees settled in Fürth, where they found a lively and prosperous Jewish community. Frieda's great-grandfather, Seligman Feuchtwanger, was born there in 1986. He became a silver merchant whose wife, Fanny Wassermann, was to bear him eighteen children.
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history; D014481:United States