Sabina Spielrein

Sabina Spielrein was born 1885 into a family of a Jewish merchant in Rostov, and died there in 1941 (1942?), murdered by Nazi troops. She was one of the first female psychoanalysts. Sabine Spielrein was married to Pavel Scheftel, a physician of Russian Jewish descent. They had two daughters: Renate, born 1914, and Eva, born 1924; both were murdered with their mother in 1942. Scheftel perished in the Great Terror, in 1936.

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1885 - Jewish - Rostov - 1941 - 1942 - Psychoanalysts - Physician - Great Terror

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A student of medicine in Zürich, Spielrein was admitted to Burghölzli Mental Hospital near Zürich, where Carl Gustav Jung worked at time, and remained there from August 17 1904 till June 1 1905. In 1904-1911, she established a deep emotional relationship with C. G. Jung; later Jung was her dissertation advisor, and his own work bore certain influence of Spielrein's. She graduated in 1911, defending a dissertation about a case of schizophrenia; in the same year, she was elected member of Vienna Society of Psychoanalysis.

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Carl Gustav Jung - Schizophrenia

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In 1923, Spielrein returned to Soviet Russia and with Vera Schmidt established a kindergarten in Moscow, nicknamed "White Nursery" by the children (all furniture and walls having been white). The institution was committed to bringing up children as free persons as early as possible. "The White Nursery" was closed down three years later by the authorities under false accusation and it was accused of practising sexual perversions on the children (in fact, Stalin actually enrolled his own son, Vassili, into the "White Nursery", under a false name).

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1923 - Vera Schmidt - Vassili

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Sabine Spielrein's letters, journals and copies of hospital records were revealed and published, as was her correspondence with Jung and Freud.

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A documentary, Ich hieß Sabina Spielrein (My Name was Sabina Spielrein), was released in ???? (see http://www.sabinaspielrein.com/). Also, there is a biopic Prendimi l?anima (The Soul Keeper), directed by Roberto Faenza, with Emilia Fox as Spielrein and Iain Glen as Carl Gustav Jung.

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???? - Emilia Fox - Iain Glen

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