Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D.

Unlocking the Golden Cage: An Intimate Biography of Hilde Bruch, M.D.
ISBN-10
0936077166
ISBN-13
9780936077161
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Gurze Books
Author
Joanne Hatch Bruch

Description

Hilde's story begins in a turn-of-the-century German hamlet, where she stood out as an exceptionally intelligent and intuitive child, who watched skeptically as Kaiser Wilhelm's troops grandly marched off to World War I. Later, as a young Jewish physician, she experienced and fled the prejudice of the Third Reich to England and eventually New York, escaping the terrible fate of numerous family members who died in Nazi concentration camps. She spent her own childbearing years as a pediatrician advising mothers while loving their children, through it all remaining ironically outside the biological experience of motherhood. Blessed with a flawless memory, unshakable confidence, and unflagging mental energy, Hilde was ruthlessly organized, mercilessly prepared, and intimidatingly productive.

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