ABSTRACT
This chapter is devoted to Nic Waal (1905-1960), one of Norway’s first psychologists and psychoanalysts. As a second-generation analyst, Waal studied psychology and psychoanalysis in Berlin under Wolfgang Kohler, Salomea Kempner, Otto Fenichel, and Wilhelm Reich in the tension-ridden interwar years. She was actively involved in the resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in the 1940-1945 period. After the war, Waal founded a still-operating institute for child psychiatry.
