Margarete Mitscherlich

Margarete Mitscherlich (1917–2012), née Mitscherlich-Nielsen, was a physician, psychoanalyst and author born in Denmark. She studied medicine and literature in Munich and Heidelberg and received her medical doctorate in Tübingen in 1950. In 1960, she co-founded the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt am Main and served for many years as editor of the journal »Psyche«. Together with her husband, Alexander Mitscherlich, she published »The Inability to Mourn« in 1967. Her other works include »The Peaceful Woman« (1985), »The Future Is Female« (1987) and »The Difficulties of Emancipation« (1990). In 2005, she received the Tony Sender Prize from the city of Frankfurt am Main.