Richard F. Sterba , born with Vienna the May 6th 1898 and died in Grosse Point (Strait) the October 24th 1989, is a psychoanalyst and Austrian doctor, disciple of Sigmund Freud.

Life

Richard F. Sterba is youngest wire of the two children of Joseph Sterba, professor of physics and mathematics. He will admit itself to regard himself as preferred his mother.

For eighteen years, it is used during the First World War as an officer. It is for this period that he discovers, thanks to doctors, the work of Sigmund Freud. That pushes it, after the war, to turn to studies of medicine to the University of Vienna, where it obtains its diploma in 1923.

Already decided to become psychiatrist, and works in particular with Professor Julius Wagner-Jauregg. It is there that it meets Paul Schilder, which taught to him the psychoanalysis in spite of the strong opposition of their professor (in 1924, it was made analyze by Edouard Hitschmann).

It is also into 1924 that created for itself the psychoanalytical Institut of Vienna directed by Helene Deutsch, where Sterba followed many seminars and was engaged as doctor in 1926 by Wilhelm Reich.

In 1936, three years after the advent of the mode Nazi, one it enjoint to present a work to the Institute, where the Nazis then are largely represented. But Sterba refuses, indicating that he renderait himself there only when one Jewish colleague is also invited there.

In 1938, whereas the Germany prepares with to annex Austria, Sterba and its family emigrate with the the United States. The doctor takes again his activity of Psychanalyste to Detroit since 1939.

Sterba was also violonist of talent and collector of Article It specialized in the psychoanalysis of artists and published the biography of Ludwig van Beethoven and Michel Ange.

It contributed until its death to the international Journal of the psychoanalysis ( International Newspaper off Psychoanalysis ).

It belonged to the circle of the analysts Viennese and met Sigmund Freud on several occasions. There remained faithful to the ideas of this last, even if he also were very marked by Wilhelm Reich (before this one is not diverted a Psychanalyse). He would have been in particular been the analyst of Bruno Bettelheim.

Works

• Reminiscences of a Psychoanalyst Viennese , Privat, 1986
• With Editha Sterba: Beethoven and its family, Buchet Chastel, 1996

External bonds

• Files of the '' NewYork Times '' on the death of Richard Sterba
• Files of Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing on Richard Sterba