This is a comprehensive biography of Helene Deutsch, a complicated, unique and important woman in the development of psychoanalysis. Roazen describes her beginnings in Poland, her development in Vienna, her emigration and later years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and provides an overview of her two volume work, The Psychology of Women, in his Epilogue. The reader learns much about the interplay between Deutsch's personal and professional life; Roazen presents her concepts and major contributions to psychoanalysis as the outgrowth of her own experiences, not only as a child who adored her father and hated her mother, but as a young woman who persisted for years in a