Name Frances Deri | ||
Frances Deri (née Franziska Herz, 1880–1971) was an Austrian psychoanalyst who moved to the States on the eve of World War Two, and practised in California where she would die in February 1971.
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She married Dr Max Deri.
Training and contributions
After initially working in Germany as a midwife, Deri was analysed at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, first by Karl Abraham, and then by Hanns Sachs, becoming herself a lay analyst.
With the rise of the Nazis, she moved to Prague, where she became a member of the Prague Psychoanalytic Study Group alongside such figures as Otto Fenichel and Annie Reich, before emigrating to America in 1935. She was one of the first (and few) lay analysts to be accepted into the American psychoanalytic community, and practised in Los Angeles, where she could pusue her passion for the cinema.
She published articles on insomnia and sublimation, as well as contributing to the analysis of coprophilia, and to the fantasy of being part of the partner's body in sexual submission.