Jenny Aubry
Jenny Aubry (8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Born | Jenny Weiss October 8, 1903 Paris |
Died | January 28, 1987 (at 83 years old) Paris |
Nationality | French |
Children | Élisabeth Roudinesco |
Family | Louise Weiss (Sister) Louis Émile Javal (Grandfather) |
Life and career
Born in to the Parisian middle-class elite, and a sister of the famous suffragette Louise Weiss,[1] Aubry was among the very first female doctors to qualify in France.[2] Having worked with the Resistance during the war, she discovered psychoanalysis through Anna Freud in 1948, and trained as a psychoanalyst under the supervision of Jacques Lacan,[3] with whom she developed a friendship and whom she followed through the various splits of the French psychoanalytic movement.
Aware too of the work of such figures as René Spitz and John Bowlby,[4] Aubry began to specialise in the treatment of institutionalised children, exploring the role of maternal deprivation in their symptomatology.[5] Her book Enfance Abandonée was published in 1953, and her collected papers in 2003.[6]
Family
Jenny Aubry was the mother of Élisabeth Roudinesco.
See also
- D. W. Winnicott
- Francoise Dolto
- Maud Mannoni
Publications
- Jenny, Aubry; Élisabeth, Roudinesco (2010). Psychanalyse des enfants séparés : études cliniques (1952-1986). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 2-207-25480-1.*
- Jenny, Aubry (1983). Enfance abandonnée. La carence de soins maternels. Paris: Scarabee and Cie. ISBN 2-86722-005-X.
References
- E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p. 240-1
- Jenny Aubry
- Jenny Aubry
- L. D. Kritzman et al eds., The Columbia Dictionary of Twentieth-Century French Thought (2007) p. 507-8
- P. Gherovici, Please Select Your Gender (2011) p. 104
- Jenny Aubry née Weiss