Heinz Hartmann

Psychoanalyst, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied with Sigmund Freud and expanded upon many of his theories. With Anna Freud and Ernst Kris, he founded the annual publication Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. He served as president of the International Psycho-Analytical Association (1951–7), and was honoured by the American Psychoanalytical Association when he received its Charles Frederick Menninger Award in 1958.

Heinz Hartmann (1894 in Vienna, Austria - 1970 in Stony Point, New York), was a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Hartmann was born to a family known for producing writers and academics.

After completing secondary school he entered the University of Vienna where he became a doctor psychologist.

The death of Karl Abraham prevented Hartmann from following the didactic treatment he had envisioned following with him.

Sigmund Freud offered him free analysis if he stayed in Vienna just as he was offered a position at the John Hopkins Institute.

In 1937, at the Viennese Psychological Society, he presented a study on the psychology of Me, a topic on which he would later expand on when writing his work translated into French under the title of La psychologie du Moi et le problème de l'adaptation. ("The Ego Psychology and the problem of its adaptation").

In 1938 he left Austria with his family to escape the Nazis.

In 1945 he founded an annual publication The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child with Kris and Anna Freud.

In the 1950s he became the president of the International Psychological Association (IPA) and after several years of his presidency, he received the honorary title of lifetime president.