Margarete Mitscherlich Nielsen

Margarete MitscherlichNielsen was a German psychoanalyst. In Germany she was often referred to as the Grande Dame of German psychoanalysis. Much of her work centers around themes of feminism, female sexuality, and the national psychology of postwar Germany.

Margarete Nielsen was born into a Protestant family in Grsten. She was the youngest daughter of Danish country doctor Nis Peter Nielsen and his wife Margarete , who was a German school headmaster. She grew up in Denmark and Germany, passing the abitur in 1937 at a private school in Flensburg. After studying literature she turned to become a doctor as her father, studying medicine at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg. She passed the first state exam in 1944 and received a doctorate from the University of Tbingen in 1950.

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