Ruth Jane Mack Brunswick

Ruth Jane Mack Brunswick (born Feb. 17, 1897, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 24, 1946, New York, N.Y.) was an American psychoanalyst, a student of Sigmund Freud whose work significantly explored and extended his theories. Ruth Mack graduated from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1918 and, having been refused admission to Harvard Medical School because of her sex, graduated from Tufts Medical School in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1922. She then traveled to Vienna to be...