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- [The following Biography is for Angelika's second husband, although his family particulars are not mentioned. It is from "Repository Guide to the Personal Papers Collections of Alan Mason Chesney Medical Archives, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions: The Frink Family Collection" <http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/sgml/frink.html>. He is also referenced in the Viola Wertheim Bernard Papers at Columbia University Health Sciences Library. Archives & Special Collections <http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/archives/bfls/bernardseries03.doc>
While Horace dies in 1936, and the report in Angelika's obituary that she was separated from her husband at her death in 1969 makes me uneasy, a New York Times article 6 Mar 1990 confirms that Horace was her second husband and the "socialite" referenced.]
"Horace Frink was born in Millerton, New York. He received his M.D. in 1905 from Cornell University Medical School and subsequently served an internship at Bellevue Hospital from 1906 to 1908. In 1909, he became an assistant in the outpatient neurological clinic at Cornell University under the tutelage of Charles Dana. It was here that Frink began the outpatient treatment of neuroses using hypnosis and psychoanalysis. In 1914, Frink became assistant professor of neurology at Cornell University and began to teach psychoanalysis to medical students. In 1918, he published Morbid Fears and Compulsions, described as "a clear and readable" explanation of neuroses. At the close of World War I, Frink traveled to Europe to study with Sigmund Freud. Frink was twice psychoanalyzed by Freud, once in 1921 and again in 1922. In August 1923, he gave up practice due to mental illness. In 1924, he put himself in the care of the noted psychiatrist Adolf Meyer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. From December 1924 through April 1925, he was a patient of Frederick Packard, Superintendent of McLean Hospital in Waverly, Massachusetts, at which time his illness was diagnosed as being manic-depressive. From then until a week before his death in 1936, he lead a normal life functioning as single parent to two children. In April 1936, he had a psychotic incident and arranged to be committed to the Pine Bluff Sanitarium in North Carolina, where he died a week later of a heart attack."
The following excerpted from "Where Will Psychoanalysis Survive?," Keynote Address by Alan A. Stone, M.D., to the American Academy of psychoanalysis, December 9, 1995 at <http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/647> isnteresting reading:
"The details of the Horace Frink affair have been authenticated by Professor Gay of Yale, the author of the definitive biography of Freud. Frink had trained in psychiatry under Adolph Meyer at Johns Hopkins. He later settled with his wife and children in New York, where he began to practice psychoanalysis without any real training as was the custom at the time. Among his patients was a woman who was a New York socialite married to a fabulously wealthy man [Angelika?]. Frink began to have an affair with her which he interrupted to go to Vienna for an analysis with Freud. Frink had one distinction of importance among analysts in New York at the time--he was not Jewish. Reminiscent of his early elevation of Carl Jung, Freud had the idea of installing Frink as the head of the New York/American Psychoanalytic Association, much to the chagrin of analysts like Abraham Brill who had much better credentials. After several months of Frink's training analysis in Vienna, Freud instructed him to send for the patient with whom Frink had been having the affair. Freud told this woman that unless she divorced her husband [Abraham Bijur?] and married Frink, Frink would most certainly become a homosexual. The woman agreed to Freud's drastic remedy and over her husband's bitter objection was divorced and married Frink, her analyst; The exchange of letters between this husband and Freud I found appalling. Frink's wife also accepted Freud's verdict. Unfortunately Frink subsequently began to display unmistakable symptoms of serious bipolar disorder, his socialite wife abandoned him, and he eventually returned to Johns Hopkins as a patient. All of this was revealed a few years ago when one of Frink's daughters found her mother's correspondence."
A fuller account of this scandal may be found in the New York Times 6 Mar 1990.
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- 1936
(Age 85 years) 