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Deutsch, Felix (1884-1964)
Biographical Note:
Felix Deutsch was born in Vienna on August 9, 1884. He attended the
University of Vienna to study internal medicine, and became a doctor in
1908. During his university years, Felix Deutsch was involved
in
the Zionist movement and helped to found a Jewish fraternity Kadima, to
which Martin Freud later belonged. Another devotion was art and music:
he played piano, composed, and painted all his life. After his marriage
to a psychoanalyst Helene Rosenbach Deutsch in 1912, he
continued
his medical practice, and became interested in the emotional problems
of medical illness and psychosomatics. By 1923 he undertook
the
training analysis and helped to establish the first Psycho-Analytic
Clinic. He was Sigmund Freud's personal physician in
1922-1923.
After immigration to the United States in 1936, Felix Deutsch became
the first Professor of Psychosomatic Medicine of Washington University
in St-Louis. A faculty member and a training analyst at the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute until his death in 1964, he held
many academic and medical positions at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Beth Israel Hospital, Simmons College, and Boston Veterans
Administration Hospital.
Summary: the collections consists of 7 manuscripts boxes
of
papers and reprints, biographical sketches, seminar lectures,
correspondence, and Veteran Administration Hospital records.
Note: more correspondence and papers of Felix Deutsch as well as his
biographical materials could be found in related BPSI Collections
listed below. BPSI also holds a sound recording of an interview with
Felix Deutsch, published in 1938-1939 by G.W.University (see Audiovisual Materials,
audio cassette 150). In addition, an Oral History Interviews Collection
includes an interview with his son Martin Deutsch from the late 1980s
(audio cassette 385), and an interview of Suzanne and Martin Deutsch in
2002 (audio cassette 497), both conducted and recorded by Dr. Sanford
Gifford.
Finding
Aid for
this collection is available
here (viewing it requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Related BPSI Collections
Assorted
Correspondence,
1872-1996
Audiovisual
Materials
BPSI
History Collections: Scientific Meetings
Deutsch, Helene
(1884-1982)
Gifford,
Sanford
Kaufman,
M. Ralph (1900-1977)
Related Sites
Felix
Deutsch:
intro by the Sigmund Freud Archives
Felix Deutsch: International Dictionary of
Psychoanalysis
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