Therese Benedek
| Therese Benedek | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 8, 1892 Eger, Hungary |
| Died | October 27, 1977 (aged 84) Chicago, Illinois Myocardial infarction |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Fields | Psychoanalysis, psychosomatic medicine |
| Institutions |
University of Leipzig Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis |
| Education | Doctorate in medicine, University of Budapest, 1916 |
| Known for | Research on psychosomatic medicine, women's psychosexual development, sexual dysfunction, and family relationships |
| Spouse | Tibor Benedek |
| Children | 2 |
Therese Benedek (November 8, 1892 – October 27, 1977) was a Hungarian-American psychoanalyst, researcher, and educator. Active in Germany and the United States between the years 1921 and 1977, she was regarded for her work on psychosomatic medicine, women's psychosexual development, sexual dysfunction, and family relationships. She was a faculty and staff member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis from 1936 to 1969.
Therese Friedmann was born in Eger, Hungary, to a traditional Jewish family. Her parents were Ignatius Friedmann and Charlotte Link Friedmann, and she had one brother and two sisters. When she was six years old, her family moved to Budapest. She 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.
Benedek initially decided to pursue a career in child psychology and study the effects of maternal separation on infant emotions. She 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. She left this position in 1919 and married shortly afterward. Having taken courses from Hungarian psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi, an associate of Sigmund Freud, during her university days, she decided to switch her career track to psychoanalysis. She underwent a five-month training analysis with Ferenczi before leaving Budapest.
In 1920 she and her new husband relocated to Germany to escape the political upheaval in Hungary. In 1920 she became an assistant physician at the Neurological-Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Leipzig and in 1921 opened the city's first private psychoanalytic practice, becoming a training analyst. From 1933 to 1935 she was a training and supervisory analyst at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute.
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