Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (1917–2012), born in Denmark, was a physician, psychoanalyst, and author. She studied medicine and literature in Munich and Heidelberg and received her medical doctorate in Tübingen in 1950. In 1955, she married the physician and psychoanalyst Alexander Mitscherlich. In 1960, she was among the co-founders of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt and served for many years as editor of the journal Psyche. Together with her husband, she published The Inability to Mourn in 1967. Her other works included The Peaceful Woman and The Future Is Female. In 2005, she received the Tony Sender Prize from the city of Frankfurt am Main.