… appeared several times in the correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, yet there was very little information about her. She came from Russia and was Jung’s first analysis-patient in the Burghölzli clinic in Zürich. | |
After successful treatment, (Jung diagnosed Hysteria) she studied medicine, became one of the first women in Freud’s Psychoanalytical Society in Vienna and worked as an analyst and child-psychologist herself. Her scientific work was known, but did not provide any further information about her fate. … read more from the film’s website |
The film My name was Sabina Spielrein is an impressive and interesting tracing of one of the first women who entered the psychoanalytic field – first as a patient and later then as a researcher herself.
to follow up -> some links:
short comments on the film / and another one in german
book: A Secret Symmetry