ABSTRACT
All the patients who came for training in Vienna had to be interviewed by Helene Deutsch; she looked for their empathy, their capacity to identify with others, as well as their control over narcissism. Within the Vienna society Helene’s title over the years was described in various ways: sometimes principal of the Training Institute, also director of the training committee, as well as president of the training committee. Helene’s position within the Vienna group also ensured her place within the International Psychoanalytic Association. Helene shared the Viennese belief that after an analysis has been performed, its effects should be allowed to ferment in a candidate who has therapeutically been left on his own. Ernest Jones was a Gentile in a movement that, especially in Vienna, was mainly made up of Jews; and Helene, like Sigmund Freud, worried about the lack of adequately talented analysts for the future.
