Ruth Jaeger, Psychoanalyst, 89
Dr. Ruth Jaeger, one of the first American women to practice psychoanalysis, died of a heart attack yesterday at Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Conn. She was 89 years old and lived in Middletown.
Dr. Jaeger, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Medical School of the University of Chicago, was a resident at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan before she moved to California. She was in private practice in Los Angeles from 1944 to 1975, when she retired. In 1988 she became a 50-year fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Jaeger, the widow of Dr. Lincoln Rahman, also a psychoanalyst, she is survived by a daughter, of Middletown, Connecticut, and a grandchild.
Ruth Jaeger, Psychoanalyst, 89
Dr. Ruth Jaeger, one of the first American women to practice psychoanalysis, died of a heart attack yesterday at Middlesex Memorial Hospital in Middletown, Conn. She was 89 years old and lived in Middletown.
Dr. Jaeger, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Medical School of the University of Chicago, was a resident at the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in Manhattan before she moved to California. She was in private practice in Los Angeles from 1944 to 1975, when she retired. In 1988 she became a 50-year fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.
Dr. Jaeger, the widow of Dr. Lincoln Rahman, also a psychoanalyst, she is survived by a daughter, of Middletown, Connecticut, and a grandchild.
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