Otto Rank, Austrian-American psychologist and academic (died 1939)

Otto Rank

Austrian psychoanalyst (1884–1939)

Otto Rank was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, until publishing his theory on the Trauma of Birth, which marked the beginning of an ideological split from Freudism. Rank was a…