{{Short description|German-American psychoanalyst (1895–1970)}} {{Infobox person | name = Robert Fliess | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Wilhelm Robert Fließ<ref name="naturalization">''New York, State and Federal Naturalization Records, 1794-1940''</ref> | birth_date = 29 December 1895<ref name="naturalization"/><ref>''U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942''</ref> | birth_place = Berlin, German Empire<ref name="naturalization"/> | death_date = {{dda|1970|5|9|1895|12|29|df=y}} | death_place = Little Compton, Rhode Island, U.S. | known_for = | occupation = Psychoanalyst }}
'''Wilhelm Robert Fliess''' ({{langx|de|Fließ}} {{IPA|de|fliːs|}}; 29 December 1895 – 9 May 1970) 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.<ref>Masson, Jeffrey M. ''The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory'' Ballantine Books New York 2003 page 141</ref> He wrote about sexual abuse and hinted that his father had abused him.<ref>Masson, Jeffrey M. ''The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory'' Ballantine Books New York 2003 pages 138-141</ref>
He immigrated to the United States in 1933 and worked as a physician.<ref name="naturalization"/> His cousin Beate Hermelin was a German-born experimental psychologist, who worked in the UK.
He died of liver cancer in 1970.<ref>Rhode Island, Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008</ref>
==Select bibliography== *''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 1: Erogeneity and Libido : Addenda to the Theory of the Psychosexual Development of the Human'' *''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 2: Ego and Body Ego: Contributions to Their Psychoanalytic Psychology'' *''Psychoanalytic Series, Volume 3: Symbol, Dream and Psychosis''
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Robert Fliess}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fliess, Robert}} Category:1895 births Category:1970 deaths Category:American psychoanalysts Category:Analysands of Siegfried Bernfeld Category:Analysands of Ruth Mack Brunswick Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Category:Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States Category:Jewish American scientists Category:German psychoanalysts Category:Deaths from liver cancer in Rhode Island