ABSTRACT
A visit to Hildemarie Streich on July 9, 2008, in Berlin, was arranged by Jorg Rasche, who has studied with Ms. Streich for many years; he considers her a close friend and a respected colleague. The visit was the highlight of the general tour he gave us of sites of historical and personal interest in Berlin. Hildemarie is not a widely known analyst, for she is not a member of the dominant Berlin Jungian group. She disclosed us that this circumstance arose because of a conflict between her first Jungian analyst Kaethe Bugler and Hans Dieckmann, who was the leader of the fledgling institute that combined with Freudian psychoanalysts early in the 1950s. Hildemarie did not begin as a Jungian. She had been educated in Heidelberg as a psycho-diagnostician and music therapist. She was an educated musician who primarily played the recorder. Then, she decided to become a psychoanalyst, so she began a training analysis with a female Freudian analyst.
