In the history of medicine, Sabina Spielrein is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Sabina Spielrein as Russian physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts (1885–1942).
Sabina Spielrein was born at Rostov-on-Don in 1885. Her recorded nationality is Russia. She trained at University of Zurich.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, laboratory medicine, vaccines and public health began to change mortality at population scale.
Her posts were held at Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich.
The recorded fields of work are psychoanalysis.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Sabina Spielrein died in 1942, aged 57. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
- Fields: psychoanalysis
