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Dr. Ruth Mack Brunswick, aged 47 years, died at her home, 29 Washington Square West, on Thursday, January 24, 1946, of a heart attack induced by pneumonia. She was born in Chicago, the daughter of the late Julian W. Mack, retired Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the late Mrs. Jessie Fox Mack.
Dr. Brunswick was a graduate of Radcliffe College and received her degree in medicine from Tufts Medical School in 1922. Soon after taking her degree she went to Vienna where she attended the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute and also became a special student of Professor Freud. As a member of this intimate circle she practiced psychoanalysis in Vienna and taught at the Institute.
Except for a period in 1928-29 when she practiced in New York, Dr. Brunswick remained in Vienna until the Nazis assumed command in 1938 at which time she returned to New York and became an instructor at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Dr. Brunswick's contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice are well known to those who work in this field. Professor Freud expressed himself as having gained a great deal of information on the pre-edipal phase of libido development through the frequent discussions he had with her on this subject. In the field of psychology of the psychoses she enlarged our knowledge of the paranoid group of reactions, particularly in the mechanisms of jealousy phenomena. Her passing is a great loss to psychoanalysis as well as a personal one to her friends and acquaintances. It is a pity that her life could not have been prolonged for many more years.