Edith Jacobson | |
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Died | December 8, 1978 | (aged 81)
Nationality | German |
Known for | Revised drive theory |
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Fields | Psychoanalysis |
Institutions | Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute |
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Edith Jacobson (German: Edith Jacobssohn; September 10, 1897 – December 8, 1978) was a German psychoanalyst. Her major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking dealt with the development of the sense of identity and self-esteem and with an understanding of depression and psychosis. She was able to integrate the tripartite structural model of classic psychoanalysis with the theory of object relations into a revised drive theory. Thereby, she increased the treatment possibilities of the more disturbed pre-oedipal patients.