Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Psychoanalysis

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann was a rather peculiar psychiatrist who came up with another way to treat “mentally ill” patients that didn’t involve physical repression or drugs. She was also one of the great disseminators of psychoanalytic ideas in the United States. She’s definitely a revolutionary when it comes to the treatment of schizophrenia. Part of her popularity is due to the fact that she treated and cured Joanne Greenberg, a woman whose cure seemed impossible and whom most professionals in the field considered insane. Therapy with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann not only brought her back to sanity but she went on to become…