Dr. Annie Reich Rubinstein, a noted psychoanalyst who had been a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society in the 1920's, and was a former President of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, died in Pittsburgh on January 5, 1971. She was 68 years old.
A native of Vienna, Dr. Reich was caught up in the intellectual excitement of the growing science of psychoanalysis, and studied medicine in order to become a psychoanalyst. She trained in Vienna and became a member of the Vienna Society in 1929. Earlier she had married Wilhelm Reich, then a member of the Vienna Society and an important contributor to the literature of psychoanalysis. In 1931 the Reichs moved to Berlin; with the advent of Hitler they left Germany and at the same time separated. Dr. Annie Reich settled in Prague with her 2 daughters, resumed psychoanalytic practice there and later married Dr.
Thomas Rubinstein, a historian.
In 1938 the family came to N. Y. Dr. Reich (the professional name by which she was widely known) became a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and started yet another new career. She was elected to the Faculty of the New York Institute, served for many years on its Educational Committee and was its President from 1954 to 1956. She wrote many important clinical and theoretical papers.
In 1961 Dr. Reich suffered a cerebral vascular accident which left her partially paralyzed. In spite of her disability she continued to work, to teach and to serve on Institute committees; her courage awoke the warm admiration of her colleagues.
Over a year ago another vascular episode disabled her completely. For many months before her death, she was cared for in Pittsburgh where her younger daughter Dr. Lore Reich Rubin, a graduate of the N. Y. Institute, practices psychoanalysis.
In addition to her daughter Lore, Dr. Reich, whose husband had died in 1955, is survived by her elder daughter, Dr. Eva Reich Moise, a physician living in Hancock, Me.
On February 9, 1971 a memorial tribute to Dr. Annie Reich was delivered, at a meeting of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, by her close life-long friend and colleague, Dr. Edith Jacobson.