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Melitta Schmideberg
Melitta Rene Schmideberg-Klein (née Klein; 17 January 1904 – 10 February 1983) was a Slovakian-born British-American physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.
Schmideberg was born in Ružomberok, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) into a Jewish family, the only daughter and eldest child of Arthur Klein and psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (née Reizes). She had a brother, Hans, who was born in 1907. Prior to the First World War, the family moved to Budapest. Following the war, her father moved to Sweden and Melitta and her mother returned to Ružomberok, where Melitta graduated from high school in 1921. She moved to Berlin to study medicine and thus to prepare to become an analyst. She regularly attended events with her mother at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, where she met Austrian psychoanalyst Walter Schmideberg, a friend of Freud, whom she married in 1924.
In 1927, Schmideberg earned her M.D. from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. That same year, her mother moved to London. Scmideberg, who by then had a Swedish passport, followed in 1928 to work on a thesis, living with her mother and traveling back and forth until her husband joined her in London in 1932. She began analytic training with Max Eitingon and Karen Horney in 1929, where she also underwent analysis with Hanns Sachs, and became an associate member of the Society in 1931. She was elected an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1932, becoming a full member in 1933.
She began analysis with Edward Glover in 1933 or 1934 and stated that she did so in order to individuate herself from her mother. Schmideberg also believed her mother's grief in response to her brother Hans' death in a 1934 climbing accident--Klein was reportedly "too distraught to go to her son's funeral"--was inadequate, another source of resentment; she blamed Klein for what she believed was Hans' suicide.
Schmideberg and Glover became vocal opponents of her mother. During the Controversial discussions, she compared her mother and the Kleinians to Goebbels, alleging that they relied on slogans instead of "scientific standards."
She resigned from the Society in 1944 to concentrate on her work with juvenile delinquency. She moved to New York City in 1945 and helped found the Association for the Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders (APTO) in New York. She became a U.S. citizen in 1959, when she was living at 444 Central Park West.
After her mother's death in 1960, she returned to London, where she died in 1983. She is sometimes seen as an extreme example of the bitterness that can be instilled by having an analytic parent.
From 1933-1945, she worked for Glover's Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency.
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Melitta Schmideberg
Melitta Rene Schmideberg-Klein (née Klein; 17 January 1904 – 10 February 1983) was a Slovakian-born British-American physician, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.
Schmideberg was born in Ružomberok, Austria-Hungary (now Slovakia) into a Jewish family, the only daughter and eldest child of Arthur Klein and psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (née Reizes). She had a brother, Hans, who was born in 1907. Prior to the First World War, the family moved to Budapest. Following the war, her father moved to Sweden and Melitta and her mother returned to Ružomberok, where Melitta graduated from high school in 1921. She moved to Berlin to study medicine and thus to prepare to become an analyst. She regularly attended events with her mother at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, where she met Austrian psychoanalyst Walter Schmideberg, a friend of Freud, whom she married in 1924.
In 1927, Schmideberg earned her M.D. from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. That same year, her mother moved to London. Scmideberg, who by then had a Swedish passport, followed in 1928 to work on a thesis, living with her mother and traveling back and forth until her husband joined her in London in 1932. She began analytic training with Max Eitingon and Karen Horney in 1929, where she also underwent analysis with Hanns Sachs, and became an associate member of the Society in 1931. She was elected an associate member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1932, becoming a full member in 1933.
She began analysis with Edward Glover in 1933 or 1934 and stated that she did so in order to individuate herself from her mother. Schmideberg also believed her mother's grief in response to her brother Hans' death in a 1934 climbing accident--Klein was reportedly "too distraught to go to her son's funeral"--was inadequate, another source of resentment; she blamed Klein for what she believed was Hans' suicide.
Schmideberg and Glover became vocal opponents of her mother. During the Controversial discussions, she compared her mother and the Kleinians to Goebbels, alleging that they relied on slogans instead of "scientific standards."
She resigned from the Society in 1944 to concentrate on her work with juvenile delinquency. She moved to New York City in 1945 and helped found the Association for the Psychiatric Treatment of Offenders (APTO) in New York. She became a U.S. citizen in 1959, when she was living at 444 Central Park West.
After her mother's death in 1960, she returned to London, where she died in 1983. She is sometimes seen as an extreme example of the bitterness that can be instilled by having an analytic parent.
From 1933-1945, she worked for Glover's Institute for the Scientific Treatment of Delinquency.
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