She once chastised her fellow therapists for withdrawing from emotionally unreachable patients rather than risk being contaminated by them. She figured that loneliness lay at the heart of nearly all mental illness and that the lonely person was just about the most terrifying spectacle in the world. Among analysts, Fromm-Reichmann, who had come to the United States from Germany to escape Hitler, was known for insisting that no patient was too sick to be healed through trust and intimacy.
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Fried” in the best-selling autobiographical novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (later also a movie and a pop song). Greenberg left the hospital, went to college, became a writer, and immortalized her beloved analyst as “Dr. Fromm-Reichmann cured Greenberg, who had been deemed incurable. The thumb stood alone, “isolated from the four hidden fingers.” Fromm-Reichmann responded gently, “That lonely?” And at that, the woman’s “facial expression loosened up as though in great relief and gratitude, and her fingers opened.”įromm-Reichmann would later become world-famous as the dumpy little therapist mistaken for a housekeeper by a new patient, a severely disturbed schizophrenic girl named Joanne Greenberg. “She raised her hand with her thumb lifted, the other four fingers bent toward her palm,” Fromm-Reichmann wrote. It might have been the young female catatonic patient who began to communicate only when Fromm-Reichmann asked her how lonely she was. She was not sure, she wrote, “what inner forces” made her struggle with the problem of loneliness, though she had a notion. Even Freud had only touched on it in passing. S ometime in the late ’50s, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann sat down to write an essay about a subject that had been mostly overlooked by other psychoanalysts up to that point.
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