Gertrude Höllwarth-Ticho

Gertrude Ticho (October 19, 1920, in Vienna – February 10, 2004, in Chevy Chase, Maryland) was an American psychoanalyst, born and trained in Austria. She was a clinical researcher and professor of psychiatry at George Washington University.

Life Gertrude Ruth Höllwarth attended a secondary school in Vienna and studied medicine at the University of Vienna where she was awarded her doctorate in April 1944. Her dissertation was on Ranula under Emil Wessely. In 1946 she completed psychoanalytic training at the Austrian Institute for Psychological Research and Psychotherapy after the end of World War II.

In 1951 she emigrated to São Paulo, Brazil, where she started a private practice. Beginning in 1953, she was a training analyst at the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicanálise. She moved to the U.S. in the mid-1950s. They married in 1956 and she changed her name to Gertrude Ticho. They both worked at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and from 1969 to 1974, she served as director of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis. In 1973, she moved with her husband to Washington, D.C., where she taught for 20 years as a clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington University.

Ticho Memorial Lecture prize The annual Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Lecture prize was established in 2006. It is managed by the American Psychoanalytic Association and "is given by an early to mid-career analyst, 5 to 15 years post-graduation, who is likely to make significant contributions to psychoanalytic science, practice, and thought."

Foundation Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Charitable Foundation is a private foundation founded in 2004 in Delray Beach, Florida.

Selected works

Luborsky, L., Fabian, M., Hall, B. H., Ticho, E., & Ticho, G. R. (1958). Treatment variables. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 22(4), 126. Ticho, G. R. (1967). On self-analysis. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 48, 308–318. Ticho, G. R. (1971). Cultural aspects of transference and countertransference: Discussions by Charles Chediak, MD and Tetsuya Iwasaki, MD. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 35(5), 313. Ticho, G. R. (1971). Selbstanalyse als Ziel der psychoanalytischen Behandlung. Psyche, 25(1), 31–43. Ticho, E. A., & Ticho, G. R. (1972). Freud and the Viennese. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 53, 301–306. Ticho, G. R. (1972). Childhood and Destiny. The Triadic Principle in Genetic Education: By Joachim Flescher, MD New York: International University. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 41, 623–628. Ticho, G. R. (1974). Discussion of Ralph R. Greenson's" The Decline and Fall of the 50-Minute Hour. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 22, 792–794. Ticho, G. R. (1974). Freud: Living and Dying. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 22(1), 218–224. Ticho, G. R. (1976). Female autonomy and young adult women. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 24, 139–155.