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Theodor Reik
THEODOR REIK (1888-1969) was a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud’s first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States. Born on May 12, 1888,...view moreTHEODOR REIK (1888-1969) was a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud’s first students in Vienna, Austria, and was a pioneer of lay analysis in the United States. Born on May 12, 1888, Reik received a Ph.D. degree in psychology from the University of Vienna in 1912. His dissertation, a study of Flaubert’s Temptation of Saint Anthony, was the first psychoanalytic dissertation ever written. After receiving his doctorate, Reik devoted several years to studying with Freud, who financially supported Reik and his family during his psychoanalytic training. Reik emigrated from Germany to the Netherlands in 1934 and to the United States in 1938, becoming naturalized in 1944. There he founded one of the first psychoanalytic training centers for psychologists, the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, which remains one of the largest and best-known psychoanalytic training institutes in New York City. Reik was the author of a number of psychoanalytic studies of psychotherapeutic listening, masochism, criminology, literature, and religion. His first major book, The Compulsion to Confess, was published in 1925. He died in New York on December 31, 1969, aged 81.
RICHARD WINSTON (1917-1979) was a prominent American translator of German works into English. Born in New York, he attended Brooklyn College and began translating in the late 1930s, working with the many German exiles in New York. Together with his wife Clara Brussell Winston (1921-1983), he translated over 150 books, as well as many other works. In 1978, the Winstons won the American Book Award for Uwe George’s In the Deserts of This Earth, and in 1972 the PEN Translation Prize for their translation of Letters of Thomas Mann. Their best known translations included the works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Albert Speer, Hermann Hesse, and Rolf Hochhuth. Both also wrote works of their own. Richard Winston died on December 22, 1979.view less