Edward Bibring (1894–1959) was an Austrian/American psychoanalyst. He studied philosophy and history at the University of Czernowitz until the first World War. After his military service he went to study medicine at the

University of Vienna The University of Vienna (german: Universität Wien) is a public research university located in Vienna, Austria. It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. With its long and rich hist ...

, and later was accepted for training by the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, in which he became an associate member from 1925, and then a full member in 1927. He was closely associated with

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

. He was an co-editor of the ''

Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse The ''Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse'' (English: ''International Journal of Psychoanalysis'') was a German-language psychoanalytic journal, which was published from 1913 to 1937 and from 1939 to 1941 by the International Psychoanal ...

'' for a brief period. In 1921 he married his fellow analyst Grete L. Bibring, and in 1941 the pair emigrated to the US.

Writings

His publishing's focused on scientific contributions to the theory of

psychoanalytic therapy PsychoanalysisFrom Greek: + . is a set of theories and therapeutic techniques"What is psychoanalysis? Of course, one is supposed to answer that it is many things — a theory, a research method, a therapy, a body of knowledge. In what might b ...

, the study of depression, and the history of psychoanalysis. Bibring's early writings included studies of the instincts, and of the

repetition compulsion Repetition compulsion is the unconscious tendency of a person to repeat a traumatic event or its circumstances. This may take the form of symbolically or literally re-enacting the event, or putting oneself in situations where the event is likely ...

. He also wrote a pair of articles on

paranoia Paranoia is an instinct or thought process that is believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of delusion and irrationality. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy co ...

in schizophrenia, including a case study of a woman who believed herself to be persecuted by someone called "Behind", a figure onto whom she had

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aspects of her own rear.

Ernest Jones Alfred Ernest Jones (1 January 1879 – 11 February 1958) was a Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst. A lifelong friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud from their first meeting in 1908, he became his official biographer. Jones was the first En ...

reported with approval Bibring's measured disagreement with Freud's concept of the

death drive In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (german: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors such as aggression, repetition compulsion, and self-destructiveness.Eric Berne, '' ...

: "Instincts of life and death are not psychologically perceptible as such; they are biological instincts whose existence is required by hypothesis alone... ought only to be adduced in a theoretical context and not in discussion of a clinical or empirical nature". While struggling with

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in the States, Bibring did publish a 1954 article on the role of

abreaction Abreaction (german: Abreagieren) is a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excesses—a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events. Psychoanalytic origins ...

in what he called "emotional reliving" - a theme later developed by Vamik Volkan in his re-grief therapy.

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External links

Bibring, EdwardEdward Bibring papers, 1929-1960 (inclusive), 1941-1958 (bulk), H MS c283. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bibring, Edward 1894 births 1959 deaths American psychoanalysts Analysands of Paul Federn University of Vienna alumni Austrian emigrants to the United States

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