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Dr. Frieda Fromm-Reichmann died at the age of sixty-seven at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, where she had for many years lived and worked.
Born in Königsberg, East Prussia, she was encouraged by her parents in her aspiration to become a physician—an unusual one at that time for a woman. She graduated in medicine in 1914. During World War I she served as a member of the staff of Kurt Goldstein, treating soldiers with injuries of the brain. She became interested in psychiatry early in the nineteen twenties, and in psychoanalysis through the writings of Freud. After her training she practiced psychoanalysis in Heidelberg.
With the rise of National Socialism in Germany Dr. Fromm-Reichmann emigrated to the United States where she was welcomed by Dexter Bullard as a member of the staff at Chestnut Lodge. There she developed a technique of modified psychoanalytic therapy of schizophrenia, which she first called 'psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy', in later years revising her original estimation of the essential differences between her method and the psychoanalysis of the transference neuroses as theretofore opposed to the analysis of narcissistic neuroses. She achieved, in the course of years, surprisingly successful results in the treatment of psychoses.
Some of the principles of her technique and theory are published in her book, Principles of Intensive Psychotherapy, and in numerous contributions to periodicals.1