Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889–1957) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who served as director of psychotherapy at Chestnut Lodge in Rockville, Maryland, for twenty-two years. She is best known for her pioneering work in intensive interpersonal psychotherapy for patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses, as well as for being the therapist depicted in Joanne Greenberg's autobiographical novel I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. She fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1935, where she developed her innovative therapeutic approach emphasizing empathetic patient-therapist relationships.