1885
Sabina Spielrein is born in Rostow on Don in Russia as the eldest daughter of a wealthy jewish businessman.

1901
Her little sister Emilia dies on typhoid fever.

1904
Her parents send Sabina to Switzerland for therapy of nervous symptoms. She is treated by C.G. Jung at the Burghölzli-Clinic with Freud's new method: psychoanalysis.

1905
She is released from the clinic and begins to study medicine in Zurich.

1906
Jung and Freud begin their correspondance about Sabina Spielrein, Jung's patient

1911
Sabina completes her doctoral theses with the title "A Case of Schizophrenia" and becomes a member of Freud's Psychoanlytical Society in Vienna

1912
She marries the russian-jewish doctor Pawel Scheftel

1913
Her daughter Renata is born

1914
Her husband returnes to Russia, she stays in Europe with the child

1917
She lives in Lausanne works at a surgical clinic

1920
At the 6th International Psychoanalytical Congress she gives a lecture entitled "About the Origin and Development of Articulation"

1921
In Geneva she works at the Jean-Jaques Rousseau Institute on child psychology. She publishes several articles.

1923
Sabina Spielrein returns to Russia and works in Moscow at the 'Institut for Psychoanalysis', the 'Psychoanalytical Home for Children' and for the 'Department of Child Psychology' at the 'First University of Moscow'.

1924
After Stalins reprisals against Psychoanalytical Institutions she moves to Rostow and reunites with her husband.

1926
Birth of her secound daughter Eva.

1936
Psychoanalysis is prohibited by Stalin. Sabina's brothers are deported and executed.
Her father and her husband die.

1942
In august, Sabina and her two daughters are executed by german soldiers together with many other Rostow Jews

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