Edith Jacobson

Edith Jacobson
Born(1897-09-10)September 10, 1897
DiedDecember 8, 1978(1978-12-08) (aged 81)
NationalityGerman
Known forRevised drive theory
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoanalysis
InstitutionsBerlin Psychoanalytic Institute, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Edith Jacobson (German: Edith Jacobssohn; September 10, 1897 – December 8, 1978) was a German psychoanalyst. Her major contributions to psychoanalytic thinking dealt with the development of the sense of identity and self-esteem and with an understanding of depression and psychosis. She was able to integrate the tripartite structural model of classic psychoanalysis with the theory of object relations into a revised drive theory. Thereby, she increased the treatment possibilities of the more disturbed pre-oedipal patients.