Psychoanalyst, specialist writer. Having graduated in psychology, philosophy and sociology at the Loránd Eötvös University of Sciences in Budapest, she joined the staff of the Institute of Education Studies, and after her dismissal from there, became an unskilled textile worker. In 1956 she became an official in the Ministry of Education, and then in 1958 a secondary school teacher. She was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment in the Mérei Trial in 1959. Released in 1961, she worked first at the Lung Sanatorium in Budakeszi, then from 1967 at the Child Psychology Institute. She has been in private practice since 1968. She has been president of the Hungarian Psychiatric Society since 1975.