Spitz, René#
Spitz, Rene, b. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1887, d. Denver (USA), Sept. 14, 1974, psychoanalyst. S. Ferenczi introduced him to S. Freud, in whose practice he underwent a teaching analysis 1910/11. S. practised in Vienna and Berlin, went to Paris in 1932, to New York in 1938, where he taught as psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute for 17 years. In 1956 became guest lecturer at the University of Colorado. He explored the earliest stages of ego development and specified methods of scientific observation of newborns and infants.
Publications#
No and Yes. On the Beginning of the Human Communication, 1957; Erziehung in frueher Kindheit, ed. by G. Bittner inter alia, 1968.