Polish psychoanalyst who practised in Switzerland
Salomea Kempner (1880–1940?) was a Polish psychoanalyst, assistant physician at the Cantonal Insane Asylum in Rheinau, Switzerland.[1]
Life
Salomea Kempner was from Plock, Poland. In 1921 she moved to Vienna,[1] and in June 1922 was elected a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society.[2] In 1923 she moved to Berlin, where she worked at the Berlin Polyclinic,[1] and became a member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Society in January 1925. In 1935 she and Philipp Sarasin, with whom she had a longstanding relationship, visited Freud together.[3] She became a training analyst in 1936.[1] She supervised the training of Adelheid Koch.[4] She continued conducting psychoanalytic control sessions in her apartment until 1937, but disappeared without trace in the Warsaw Ghetto.[5]
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