Sterba, Richard F, Psychoanalysts--Austria--Biography, Psychoanalysis--Austria--History, Psychoanalysis--Austria--Personal narratives 

In this memoir, Richard F. Sterba describes his involvement in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society from 1924 to 1938 as a student, an active member, and finally a board member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and a member of the faculty of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. As colleagues and contemporaries of Felix and Helene Deutsch, Wilhelm and Annie Reich, Edward and Grete Bibring, Marie Bonaparte, and August Aichhorn, among the analysts in the Viennese group, Richard and Editha Sterba were early participants in the development of psychoanalysis. Sterba's descriptions of the meetings of the Vienna Society paint a picture of the new science as it emerged from the intellectual interplay between Freud and the other members of the extraordinary circle of brilliant analysts gathered around him in the 1920s. Sterba is the last witness to some events of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, including the final meetings of the society in 1938 just before the Anschluss. His firsthand report is an important contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature about Sigmund Freud and his colleagues. Editorial Reviews In this memoir, Richard F. Sterba describes his involvement in the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society from 1924 to 1938. About the Author A native of Vienna, Richard F. Sterba received his MD. degree from the University of Vienna Medical School in 1923. He was a member of the first class to receive psychoanalytic training at the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute and was a training analyst there for ten years. Since his arrival in Detroit in 1939, he has been a practicing psychoanalyst. He has been affiliated with international, national, and state psychoanalytic societies. Dr. Sterba is the author of Libido Theory (1942) and, with his wife Editha, Beethoven and His Nephew (1954). He has published extensively in the field of theoretical, clinical, and applied psychoanalysis.