Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Helene Deutsch

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Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Helene Deutsch was a Polish American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained a practice. Deutsch was one of the first psychoanalysts to specialize in women. She was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Austrian - Psychologist | October 9, 1884 - March 29, 1982

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The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress.

Helene Deutsch

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

Helene Deutsch

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

Helene Deutsch

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

Helene Deutsch

All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.

Helene Deutsch

All the best human impulses can be traced back to adolescence.

Helene Deutsch

for many people traveling can have deep psychological meaning.

Helene Deutsch

The very fact that the youthful soul feels insecure strengthens its active aspiration to master its insecurity.

Helene Deutsch

It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.

Helene Deutsch

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

Helene Deutsch

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Helene Deutsch

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Helene Deutsch

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