Robert Fliess


Wilhelm Robert Fliess was a German-American physician and psychoanalyst. He was the son of Wilhelm Fliess, a controversial otolaryngologist whose pseudoscientific theories influenced Sigmund Freud. He coined the term ambulatory psychosis. He wrote about sexual abuse and hinted that his father had abused him.
He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a physician. His cousin Beate Hermelin was a German-born experimental psychologist, who worked in the UK.
He died of liver cancer in 1970.

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