JACOBSON,EDITH 1897-1978 - NOTES ON HER L IFE AND WORK

The author describes the life stations of Edith Jacobson from her birt h in Haynau via Berlin, where she had her psychoanalytic training and where she later was taken into NS prison, to her emigration and death in New York. She reviews her scientific work which is centered around such different contributions as the conceptualisation of the female de velopment, the psychic effects of captivity, as well as fundamental as pects of the self development and the depressive illness from the view point of the object relation theory.