Helene Deutsch

Helene Deutsch (ne Rosenbach; born 9 October 1884 in Przemyl; died 29 March 1982 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She was the first psychoanalyst to specialize in women.

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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself: That is not what I meant by freedom -- it is only social progress.

— Helene Deutsch

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

— Helene Deutsch

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

— Helene Deutsch