Dr. Beatrice Hinkle, Leader in Women's Psychology Studies, Writes on Her Heavy Workload, 1933

Dr. Beatrice Hinkle

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[Psychology ] [Medicine] Beatrice Hinkle. Pioneering American feminist, psychoanalyst, writer, and translator. Hinkle writes about her heavy workload. Typed letter signed on Hinkle's Gramercy Park letterhead. New York, New York. April 7th, 1933. Beatrice Hinkle was a mental health advocate who sought to improve psychiatric care for women and children by founding the first U.S. therapeutic clinic. The history fo women and apsychiartry is famously fraught. Dr. Beatrice Hinkleher psychotherapeutic clinic in 1908, breaking away from Freud to design therapies that recognized women's complex intellectual and emotional lives. In this letter, Hinkle writes that her work has kept her "so rushed that not a moment has been free."

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