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A current reader in the history of psychoanalysis may not know Helene Deutsch's witty, light-hearted memoir, Confrontations with Myself (1973), or the lumbering official biography of Deutsch by Paul Roazen that followed (1985). A recent visit to the Helene Deutsch Archive at the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe (2001) recalls an ancient controversy about Roazen's book and suggests a persistent misattribution.
In his biography, Roazen makes a great deal of an adolescent journal, to which he devotes his entire second chapter, called “Diary of an Adolescent Double.” This was a diary for the years 1900 to 1904, which he had received from Deutsch in 1976, among other papers. She was 92 at the time, and she had attached a note to the diary, in her daughter-in-law's handwriting: “Has something to do with Burg theatre? Daughter of a famous Viennese actress. Author began to write it on the occasion of her 12th birthday.” The diary, bound in an elaborately tooled green leather folio of some hundred pages, is inscribed in gold Christinens Erlebnisse (Christine's Experiences). The author's name also appears as Mädi Fournier, and the