Theodor Reik
(1888-1969)
Theodor Reik was born in Vienna in 1888.
In 1938 the tread of Nazi take-over caused Dr. Reik to leave the Netherlands, where he was in private practice and lecturing at the University in Leiden.
He arrived in the United States as a refugee in June, 1938. Theodor Reik was a protege, student, and liflong friend of Sigmund Freud. He was also a member of the pioneering circle of psychoanalysts that was headed by Freud and included Carl Jung, Alfred Alder, Otto Rank, Hans Sachs, Sandor Ferenczi.
Of those in that early circle, Reik became Freud's favorite and the man Freud thought of as his successor. Although a pupil of Freud, Dr. Reik's own theories represent an important and revolutionary departures from Freud's principles.
Major Works of Theodor Reik
- The compulsion to confess (1929)
- The unknown murderer (1932)
- Masochism and modern man (1941)
- A psychologist looks at love (1944)
- Listening with the third ear (1948)
- The Secret self (1952)
- Myth and guilt (1957)
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