Prophecy Coles trained as a psychotherapist at the Lincoln Clinic but is now retired. She has always been interested in writing about people on the margin of interest to the psychoanalytic world, including siblings, The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis (2003), forgotten ancestors, The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past (2011), wet nurses and nannies, The Shadow of the Second Mother (2015), stepfamilies, Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting (2018), and the illegitimate child, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproductive Technology (2021). Now she has written on the forgotten child psychoanalyst, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, whose life was overshadowed by the hidden secret of her illegitimately born sister who had an illegitimate child, Hermine’s nephew. Hermine was the first Viennese child psychoanalyst and much admired by Freud. Her tragic end, when she was murdered by her illegitimately born nephew in 1924, has meant she has been ignored by historians of psychoanalysis until MacLean and Rappen (1991) translated much of her work and wrote a short biography of her.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authorIntroductionChapter 1The end and the beginningChapter 2ViennaChapter 3Educational reformChapter 4Hermine’s psychoanalystChapter 5Hermine’s autobiographical writingChapter 6A Young Girl’s DiaryChapter 7Antonia’s illegitimacyChapter 8The Vienna Psychoanalytic SocietyChapter 9Hermine’s early psychoanalytic writingChapter 10War traumaChapter 11Hermine and RolphChapter 12Hermine at the peak of her careerChapter 13The last yearChapter 14The endReferencesIndex

‘Prophecy Coles has written a breathtaking book telling the silenced story of Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, a major child analyst who was murdered by her nephew. She does justice to a woman who was erased from history at the very start of psychoanalysis. By weaving artfully Hermine’s biography with history at the turn of the twentieth century, and with her personal involvement, Prophecy Coles takes the reader into a dialogue with her psychoanalytic research, which is also mine, at the crossroads of a singular story, that of a woman and the turmoil of history.’

Prophecy Coles trained as a psychotherapist at the Lincoln Clinic but is now retired. She has always been interested in writing about people on the margin of interest to the psychoanalytic world, including siblings, The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis (2003), forgotten ancestors, The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past (2011), wet nurses and nannies, The Shadow of the Second Mother (2015), stepfamilies, Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting (2018), and the illegitimate child, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproductive Technology (2021). Now she has written on the forgotten child psychoanalyst, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, whose life was overshadowed by the hidden secret of her illegitimately born sister who had an illegitimate child, Hermine’s nephew. Hermine was the first Viennese child psychoanalyst and much admired by Freud. Her tragic end, when she was murdered by her illegitimately born nephew in 1924, has meant she has been ignored by historians of psychoanalysis until MacLean and Rappen (1991) translated much of her work and wrote a short biography of her.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authorIntroductionChapter 1The end and the beginningChapter 2ViennaChapter 3Educational reformChapter 4Hermine’s psychoanalystChapter 5Hermine’s autobiographical writingChapter 6A Young Girl’s DiaryChapter 7Antonia’s illegitimacyChapter 8The Vienna Psychoanalytic SocietyChapter 9Hermine’s early psychoanalytic writingChapter 10War traumaChapter 11Hermine and RolphChapter 12Hermine at the peak of her careerChapter 13The last yearChapter 14The endReferencesIndex

‘Prophecy Coles has written a breathtaking book telling the silenced story of Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, a major child analyst who was murdered by her nephew. She does justice to a woman who was erased from history at the very start of psychoanalysis. By weaving artfully Hermine’s biography with history at the turn of the twentieth century, and with her personal involvement, Prophecy Coles takes the reader into a dialogue with her psychoanalytic research, which is also mine, at the crossroads of a singular story, that of a woman and the turmoil of history.’

Prophecy Coles trained as a psychotherapist at the Lincoln Clinic but is now retired. She has always been interested in writing about people on the margin of interest to the psychoanalytic world, including siblings, The Importance of Sibling Relationships in Psychoanalysis (2003), forgotten ancestors, The Uninvited Guest from the Unremembered Past (2011), wet nurses and nannies, The Shadow of the Second Mother (2015), stepfamilies, Psychoanalytic and Psychotherapeutic Perspectives on Stepfamilies and Stepparenting (2018), and the illegitimate child, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Illegitimacy, Adoption and Reproductive Technology (2021). Now she has written on the forgotten child psychoanalyst, Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, whose life was overshadowed by the hidden secret of her illegitimately born sister who had an illegitimate child, Hermine’s nephew. Hermine was the first Viennese child psychoanalyst and much admired by Freud. Her tragic end, when she was murdered by her illegitimately born nephew in 1924, has meant she has been ignored by historians of psychoanalysis until MacLean and Rappen (1991) translated much of her work and wrote a short biography of her.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authorIntroductionChapter 1The end and the beginningChapter 2ViennaChapter 3Educational reformChapter 4Hermine’s psychoanalystChapter 5Hermine’s autobiographical writingChapter 6A Young Girl’s DiaryChapter 7Antonia’s illegitimacyChapter 8The Vienna Psychoanalytic SocietyChapter 9Hermine’s early psychoanalytic writingChapter 10War traumaChapter 11Hermine and RolphChapter 12Hermine at the peak of her careerChapter 13The last yearChapter 14The endReferencesIndex

‘Prophecy Coles has written a breathtaking book telling the silenced story of Hermine Hug-Hellmuth, a major child analyst who was murdered by her nephew. She does justice to a woman who was erased from history at the very start of psychoanalysis. By weaving artfully Hermine’s biography with history at the turn of the twentieth century, and with her personal involvement, Prophecy Coles takes the reader into a dialogue with her psychoanalytic research, which is also mine, at the crossroads of a singular story, that of a woman and the turmoil of history.’