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Sabina Spielrein: from psychiatric patient to psychoanalyst

A review of John Launer’s Sex Versus Survival tells the impressive story of a young patient of Jung who became a leading child psychologist in her own right

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein John Launer

Duckworth, pp.307, £20, ISBN: 9780715647417

Sabina Spielrein was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with groundbreaking ideas about the role of the reproductive drive in human psychology and the link between Darwinism and psychoanalytic theory. She was a pioneer of play therapy for children, and the first hospitalised psychiatric patient to progress to practising psycho-analysis.

She worked with, among others, Freud, Jung and Piaget; she was regarded as Freud’s standard-bearer.

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