Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen
Born(1917-07-17)17 July 1917
Died12 June 2012(2012-06-12) (aged 94)
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
SpouseAlexander Mitscherlich
Awards2001 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen (née Nielsen; 17 July 1917 12 June 2012) or the "Grande Dame of German Psychoanalysis" as she was often referred to as, was a German psychoanalyst who focused mainly on the themes of feminism, female sexuality, and the national psychology of post-war Germany.