Hanns Sachs, Austrian psychoanalyst and doctor of low (1881 --1947) | NCP-LA

Name: Hanns Sachs, Austrian psychoanalyst and doctor of low (1881 --1947)

Historical Note: In 1918, Sachs abandoned his legal practice to become a professional  analyst in Zuerich. In 1920 he became a training analyst at the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute headed by Karl Abraham. In 1932 he left Germany and emigrated to Americal. He taught at Harvard Medical School where he was one of the few analysts without a degree in medicine. Despite his authority as a training analyst in the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and despite the esteem in which he was held as someone close to Freud, his role was universally accepted, mainly because of the issue of lay analysis. In 1939, he founded the American Imago which is still published today.

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