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PSYCHOLOGIST

Otto Rank

1884 - 1939

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Otto Rank (; German: [ʀaŋk]; né Rosenfeld; 22 April 1884 – 31 October 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and philosopher. Born in Vienna, he was one of Sigmund Freud's closest colleagues for 20 years, a prolific writer on psychoanalytic themes, editor of the two leading analytic journals of the era, managing director of Freud's publishing house, and a creative theorist and therapist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Rank has received more than 581,016 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Otto Rank is the 74th most popular psychologist (down from 69th in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Austria (down from 222nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Psychologist.

Otto Rank was a psychoanalyst who is most famous for his work on the psychology of creativity.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Otto Rank ranks 74 out of 183Before him are Edward B. Titchener, Stanislav Grof, G. Stanley Hall, David Wechsler, Kurt Koffka, and Mary Ainsworth. After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber, Karl Abraham, Alice Miller, Harry Harlow, William Stern, and Paul Watzlawick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Otto Rank ranks 35Before him are Emil Jannings, Casimir Funk, Max Beckmann, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Prince Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland, and Panait Istrati. After him are Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Étienne Gilson, Petru Groza, Robert J. Flaherty, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Among people deceased in 1939, Otto Rank ranks 24Before him are Antonio Machado, Alexander Yegorov, Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria, Ferdinand von Lindemann, Louis Wain, and Douglas Fairbanks. After him are Anthony Fokker, Ghazi of Iraq, Ernst Toller, Prince Valdemar of Denmark, Wilhelm Groener, and Stanislav Kosior.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 231 out of 1,237Before him are Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria (1692), Otto Bauer (1881), Leopold V, Archduke of Austria (1586), Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick (1887), Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766), and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma (1893). After him are Roland Ratzenberger (1960), Falco (1957), Klaus Ebner (1964), Alexander Wienerberger (1891), Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), and Bruno Kreisky (1911).

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Austria

Among psychologists born in Austria, Otto Rank ranks 6Before him are Alfred Adler (1870), Viktor Frankl (1905), Melanie Klein (1882), Anna Freud (1895), and Bruno Bettelheim (1903). After him are Paul Watzlawick (1921), René Spitz (1887), Otto Gross (1877), Heinz Kohut (1913), Walter Mischel (1930), and Fritz Heider (1896).