A letter from Paula Heimann to her training analyst, Theodor Reik, written shortly before her emigration from Berlin to London, sheds light on some technical controversies and personal animosities that shaped psychoanalytic clinical discourse in the early 1930s, as well as on Heimann’s subsequent development as a clinician. A close reading of this letter highlights several distinctive aspects of psychoanalytic training and demonstrates the transmission channels of psychoanalytic ideas.
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an earlier version of this paper (which included Heimann’s original letter in German) was published in Luzifer-Amor Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der Psychoanalyse and can be read here>>