[Dusseldorf- Berlin - Ankara - Washington. The Iife of Edith Weigert, née Vowinckel (1894-1982)].
Based on unpublished material and oral history interviews, the article traces the life of Edith Weigert. Born in Dusseldorf, she moved to Berlin where she studied psychiatry under Bonhoeffer, was trained in psychoanalysis, joined the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) and worked at the psychoanalytic clinic Schloss Tegel. At the beginning of the Nazi regime she became a training analyst and a faculty member and joined the board of the DPG. Her husband was Jewish and in 1935 she fled to Turkey with her family. After three years of pioneering work there she emigrated to the USA and settled in Washington, D.C. where she worked in private practice. With her involvement in institutional politics and psychoanalytic training, she significantly contributed to the development of American psychoanalysis. It was characteristic for Weigert to try to build bridges between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, philosophy and religion as well as between the Sullivan school und IPA psychoanalysis.
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Freien Universität Berlin. Maren_Holmes@yahoo.de
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