ABSTRACT
Helene Deutsch decision to go to Berlin meant a separation from Felix Deutsch that lasted for over a year. Entirely aside from cases she might expect to pick up from referrals in Berlin, Helene arrived in a self-sufficient condition. In Berlin she wanted to test whether S. Freud’s recommendation that she stay on the road of identification with her father had been a sound piece of advice. Freud may have been a holy figure to Helene, but she had her reservations about him as a therapist; he sought to teach more than cure. Karl Abraham was Freud’s trusted lieutenant, the leader of the Berlin society, someone in whom Helene had great confidence. Berlin had good music and was the center for the cultural life of the Weimar Republic, but she said she found it a cold, noisy city, lacking in charm, just as Lieberman had thought in 1908.
