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This chapter discusses the life and works of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, the German-born psychiatrist famous for curing severe chronic schizophrenia by means of intense psychotherapy at Chestnut Lodge in Maryland.

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  1. 1.

    Alon Confino, A World Without Jews, The Nazi Imagination From Persecution to Genocide (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014) 39–40.

  2. 2.

    Ibid., 40–41.

  3. 3.

    Ibid., 41.

  4. 4.

    Eric D. Kohler, “Relicensing Central European Refugee Physicians in the United States, 1933–1945.” Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual, 6, Chapter 1, accessed July 31, 2018, http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394727

  5. 5.

    Gail A. Hornstein, To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (New York: Free Press, 2000) 118.

  6. 6.

    Ibid., 82.

  7. 7.

    Ibid., 85–93.

  8. 8.

    Ibid., 88–98.

  9. 9.

    Ibid., 92.

  10. 10.

    Ibid., 201.

  11. 11.

    Ibid., xv–xvii.

  12. 12.

    Ibid., 304.

  13. 13.

    Ibid., 212.

  14. 14.

    Ibid., 48.

  15. 15.

    Ibid., xvi.

  16. 16.

    Ibid., xvi.

  17. 17.

    Ibid., 141.

  18. 18.

    Ibid., 170.

  19. 19.

    Ibid., xv.

  20. 20.

    Ibid., 143.

  21. 21.

    Ibid., 140.

  22. 22.

    Ibid., 222–233.

  23. 23.

    Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, “Frieda Fromm-Reichmann discusses the ‘Rose Garden Case,’” Psychiatry, 45, no. 2, (May 1982): 129.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., 128.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., 129.

  26. 26.

    Ibid., 133.

  27. 27.

    Ibid., 129, 131.

  28. 28.

    Ibid., 129–131.

  29. 29.

    Ibid., 346–348.

  30. 30.

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  31. 31.

    Hornstein, Redeem the World, 370–371.

  32. 32.

    Shorter, History, 378.

  33. 33.

    Joanne Greenburg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Saint Martins, 1964, 1992, Afterword 2009), 291.

  34. 34.

    Hornstein, Redeem the World, 432.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., 432.

  36. 36.

    Ibid., 198.

  37. 37.

    David McK. Rioch, “Dexter Bullard, Sr., and Chestnut Lodge,” Psychiatry, 47, no. 1 (February 1984):1–8.

  38. 38.

    Boodman, Sandra G., “‘A horrible place, a wonderful place.’” Washington Post, October 8, 1989, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1989/10/08/a-horrible-place-a-wonderful-place/ee4d7572-7ac0-4159-baf8-e8112a983e50/?utm_term=.e79f49907296

  39. 39.

    Ibid.

  40. 40.

    Ibid.

  41. 41.

    Ibid.

  42. 42.

    Ibid.

  43. 43.

    Ibid.

  44. 44.

    Ibid.

  45. 45.

    Ibid.

  46. 46.

    Ibid.

  47. 47.

    Ibid.

  48. 48.

    Ibid.

  49. 49.

    Ibid.

  50. 50.

    Ibid.

  51. 51.

    Anonymous, “D.M. Bullard Jr. 66; Led Psychiatric Unit,” New York Times, August 12, 1995, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/12/obituaries/dm-bullard-jr-66-led-psychiatric-unit.html

  52. 52.

    City of Rockville Community Planning & Development Services, Chestnut Lodge Design Guidelines. (2004). Accessed January 7, 2018, https://www.rockvillemd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6847

  53. 53.

    Nesa Nourmohammadi, “A Year Later, Historic Chestnut Lodge Still Mourned.” Washington Post, June 17, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/16/AR2010061603175.html

  54. 54.

    Neal Earley, “Rockville Closer to Finalizing Plans for Chestnut Lodge.” Montgomery County Sentinel, May 14, 2018, http://www.thesentinel.com/mont/news/local/item/6799-rockville-closer-to-finalizing-plans-for-chestnut-lodge

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Hahn, P.D. (2019). Frieda Fromm-Reichmann and Chestnut Lodge. In: Madness and Genetic Determinism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21866-9_11

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