Robert Fliess Explained

Robert Fliess
Birth Name:	Wilhelm Robert Fließ^[1]
Birth Date:	29 December 1895^[2]
Birth Place:	Berlin, Germany
Death Place:	Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States
Occupation:	psychoanalyst

Wilhelm Robert Fliess (29 December 1895 – 9 May 1970) was a German-American physician and psychoanalyst. He was the son of Wilhelm Fliess, a controversial otolaryngologist whose pseudoscientific theories influenced Sigmund Freud. He coined the term ambulatory psychosis.^[3] He wrote about sexual abuse and hinted that his father had abused him.^[4]

He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a physician.^[1] His cousin Beate Hermelin was a German-born experimental psychologist, who worked in the UK.

He died of liver cancer in 1970.^[5]

Select bibliography

• Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 1: Erogeneity and Libido : Addenda to the Theory of the Psychosexual Development of the Human
• Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 2: Ego and Body Ego: Contributions to Their Psychoanalytic Psychology
• Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 3: Symbol, Dream and Psychosis

Notes and References

1. New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940
2. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
3. Masson, Jeffrey M. The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory Ballantine Books New York 2003 page 141
4. Masson, Jeffrey M. The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory Ballantine Books New York 2003 pages 138-141
5. Rhode Island, Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008