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Decision makers can seem frighteningly detached. Public life and the norms of individual chology are not automatically identical. KEY WORDS: Helene Deutsch; "as if"; conformism; politician. Political psychology makes a fertile field for those political.
Sep 21, 2022 · The ‘as if personality’ was initially described by Freudian psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch. In 1942 she depicted a person who was seemingly without genuineness and called basically imitative (Solomon, 2004, p. 637).
Helene Deutsch (née Rosenbach; 9 October 1884 – 29 March 1982) was a Polish-American psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud. She founded the Vienna Psychoanalytic Institute. In 1935, she immigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she maintained a practice. Deutsch was one of the first psychoanalysts to specialize in women.
AS IF PERSONALITY. In 1934, and again in 1942, Helene Deutsch described what she called the "as if" ( als ob ) personality type. She was referring to individuals who leave other people with an impression of inauthenticity, even though they seem to enjoy "normal" relations with those around them and even though they complain of no disorder.
She became known for her studies of the “as if” personality, a precursor of later interest in borderline personalities, described in Some Forms of Emotional Disturbances and their Relation to Schizophrenia (1942); the patients in question give an impression of “complete normality,” but true warmth and inner feeling are missing, although outwardl...
Deutsch, H. Some forms of emotional disturbances and their relationship to schizophrenia (1934). Neuroses and Character Types. , New York: International Universities Press, 1965, pp. 262–281.
Helene Deutsch presented a group of character traits and a description of behavior in certain vital areas of ego functioning which added up to a unique and distinct mental type that proved to have great implications for normal and abnormal psychological theory and that presaged some of the major developments in psychoanalysis in subsequent decades.
