ABSTRACT
Helene Deutsch activities as a leader within the analytic movement were only one aspect of her profession. Helene felt justified in her habitual hard work: an analyst could hope to see relatively few patients in a lifetime and therefore needed clinical variety; it was also not then taken for granted that analysis would endure, so cases had to be taken as they came. Helene’s livelihood and thinking took place within the concepts Sigmund Freud had created; yet she had come to analysis as a grown woman, with her own experience of life, so she maintained a measure of independence within the confines of Viennese analysis. Telepathic processes could be partially understood by the example of extraordinary analytic intuition; Helene offered illustrations from her own clinical practice. Helene went on to discuss examples of hysterical symptoms—night terrors, bed-wetting, impotence, paralysis, speech defects, gluttony, fits, and trance states.
