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Also Known As Jacques Marie Émile Lacan
Born April 13, 1901 • Paris • France
Died September 9, 1981 (aged 80) • Paris • France
Founder Freudian School of Paris
Subjects Of Study psychoanalysis
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French psychiatrist and philosopher
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Harry Stack Sullivan
American psychiatrist
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Hermann Rorschach
Swiss psychiatrist
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Ludwig Binswanger
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Luce Irigaray
French linguist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher
Kristeva, Julia
Julia Kristeva
French author
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Jean-Étienne-Dominique Esquirol
French psychiatrist
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William Claire Menninger
American physician
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Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist
Bertha Pappenheim
Bertha Pappenheim
Austrian-Jewish activist
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Jean Tatlock
Jean Tatlock
American psychiatrist
Karen Horney
Karen Horney
German-born American psychoanalyst
Alfred Adler.
Alfred Adler
Austrian psychiatrist
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Wilhelm Reich
Viennese psychiatrist
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Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
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Otto Rank
Austrian psychologist