Jeanne Lampl-de Groot, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and psychologist, was born in Schiedam, on October 16, 1895, and died in Amsterdam on April 5, 1987, both in the Netherlands.

A psychoanalyst of the first generation, Lampl-de Groot grew up as the third of four children in a Jewish family, her father a businessman, her mother the daughter of a general practitioner. She studied medicine at Leiden and Amsterdam Universities and in 1921 became a doctor.

As a student, she came across Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, which fascinated her. After finishing her studies she wrote to Freud, asking him whether she could come to him to learn psychoanalysis. In April 1922 she began her work with Freud, at the age of twenty-seven, which was unusually young in those years. With Anna Freud among others, she attended courses and seminars of the Vienna Society and also worked in the psychiatric clinic of Wagner von...