ABSTRACT
The whole atmosphere of Helene Deutsch relationship with Felix Deutsch was different from her involvement with Herman Lieberman. Felix was just a few months older than she, although, since he had gone to medical school without the delays she had experienced, he had become a doctor in 1908 and was further along in medicine than she. Felix, a native Viennese, was spending a year in Munich on staff; he had made internal medicine his specialty and went there to study under a famous Professor, Friedrich Muller. In Poland, Helene, like Felix in Munich, was going on excursions, and he was supportive about her decision to spend the next year in Vienna passing her final examinations to become a doctor. Felix was not jealous of Lieberman; he sympathized with the “unpleasantness” to Helene of Lieberman’s efforts to renew contact with her in late August. For a man like Felix, inexperienced with women, Helene’s involvement with Lieberman served to reassure himself.
