Salomea Kempner

Salomea Kempner (1880–1940?) was a Polish psychoanalyst, assistant physician at the Cantonal Insane Asylum in Rheinau, Switzerland.

Life Salomea Kempner was from Płock, Poland. In 1921 she moved to Vienna, In 1923 she moved to Berlin, where she worked at the Berlin Polyclinic, She became a training analyst in 1936. She continued conducting psychoanalytic control sessions in her apartment until 1937, but disappeared without trace in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Works Versuche zum mikroskopischen Nachweis der Narkose der Nerven[Attempts at microscopic detection of nerve anesthesia]. Zürich, 1909. 'Beitrag zur Oralerotik'. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. 11, p. 69-77, 1925 'Some remarks on oral erotism'. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol. 6, pp. 419–429, 1925 (trans. with W. Zaniewicki) Wstęp do psychoanalizy by Sigmund Freud. Translation from the German Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die Psychoanalyse. Warsaw: J. Przeworski, 1935.