Therese Benedek was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, researcher, and educator.
18 Facts About Therese Benedek
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Therese Benedek was a faculty and staff member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1936 to 1969.
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Therese Benedek's parents were Ignatius Friedmann and Charlotte Link Friedmann, and she had one brother and two sisters.
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Therese Benedek was the only one of her siblings to receive a university education, graduating from the University of Budapest with a doctorate in medicine in 1916.
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Therese Benedek initially decided to pursue a career in child psychology and study the effects of maternal separation on infant emotions.
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Therese Benedek completed the requirements for a residency in pediatrics in 1918 and began working as an assistant physician at the St Elizabeth University pediatric clinic in Bratislava.
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Therese Benedek left this position in 1919 and married shortly afterward.
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Therese Benedek underwent a five-month training analysis with Ferenczi before leaving Budapest.
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Therese Benedek was a faculty and staff member, engaging in teaching, supervising, and research at the institute, for the next 34 years.
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Therese Benedek acquired her US medical license in 1937 and her US citizenship in 1943.
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Therese Benedek's husband joined the faculty of Northwestern University School of Medicine.
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Therese Benedek is said to have "played a central role in the development of psychoanalysis in the United States".
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Therese Benedek described the "modern" woman's struggle with her natural maternal role.
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Therese Benedek studied the effects of gender equality and democracy on relationships between spouses and their children.
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Therese Benedek published further research on parenthood, family relationships, and depression into her seventies, and continued seeing patients in private practice after her retirement from the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in 1969.
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In Germany Therese Benedek was a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society.
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Therese Benedek died of a heart attack on October 27,1977, aged 84.
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Therese Benedek's papers are stored at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.