Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen
| Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 17, 1917 Gråsten, Denmark |
| Died | June 12, 2012 (aged 94) Frankfurt, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen |
| Spouse(s) | Alexander Mitscherlich |
| Awards | 2001 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (née Nielsen;[1] 17 July 1917 – 12 June 2012) or the "Grande Dame of German Psychoanalysis" as she was often referred to, was a German psychoanalyst [2][3] who focused mainly on the themes of feminism, female sexuality, and the national psychology of post-war Germany.
Margarete Nielsen was born July 17, 1917, as the youngest daughter to Doctor Nis Peter Nielsen and his wife Margarete (née Leopold). Most of Nielsen's young life was spent in Denmark until she moved to Germany. While in Germany, Nielsen devoted much of her time to studying literature and eventually received the highest possible certificate or "abitur" in 1937 from a private institution located in Flensburg. After studying literature she decided to follow in her father's footsteps and study medicine at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg. She passed the first state exam in 1944 and received a doctorate from the University of Tübingen in 1950.[5] In the following years Nielsen completed her psychoanalytic training at the London institute led by Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Michael Balint.
Her professional work with psychoanalysis began at an anthroposophical clinic in the Swiss canton of Ticino, where she met her future husband Alexander Mitscherlich. The two married in 1955 and eventually returned to Germany. Once in Germany Nielsen took up work at a psychosomatic clinic her husband directed at Heidelberg, before moving to Frankfurt. In 1960, the couple became co-founders of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut dedicated to psychoanalytic research.
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