Marianne Kris
Marilyn spent longer undergoing analysis with Dr. Marianne Kris than with either of her other two psychoanalysts, Dr.Margaret Hohenberg and Dr. Ralph Greenson. It is commonly believed that Marilyn began seeing Dr. Kris in 1957, after she left Dr. Hohenberg, who was also analyst to business partner Milton Greene.
This arrangement no longer suited Marilyn, who was in the process of distancing herself from Greene. However, some biographers also claim that Marilyn began analysis in 1955 directly with Dr. Kris.Kris was recommended by an illustrious source: Anna Freud, daughter of Sigmund, whom Marilyn had asked for advice. Born in Vienna, Marianne Rie had grown up in the inner sanctum of psychoanalysis.
Sigmund Freud not only supervised her training, he referred to her as his "adopted daughter." Marianne, her husband, artist Ernst Kris, and the Freuds together fled Austria and the Nazis in 1938. Traveling on to New York, Marianne and Ernst set up a private practice specialized in child psychoanalysis. Marilyn visited Dr. Kris at her office at 135 Central Park West on a regular basis - as many as five sessions a week - right up until early 1961, though during the period that Marilyn was on the West Coast filming The Misfits, she began to see Greenson, who was her last psychoanalyst.
Marilyn's trust in Dr. Kris were irrevocably damaged in February 1961 when, depending on sources, either at Marilyn's request because of the emotional strains of the preceding months, or because of Dr. Kris was anxious over signs of suicidal behavior in her patient, Kris arranged for Marilyn to stay at the Payne-Whitney Hospital.
As soon as Marilyn realized that she was being put in a locked ward, she snapped - her worst nightmare of being locked away, like her mother and her grandmother before her, had come true. After a few days, Marilyn managed to get a message to Joe DiMaggio, who flew in from Florida and managed to transfer her to an environment more conducive to recovery.
Soon after, Dr. Kris reputedly told Marilyn's friend and masseur Ralph Roberts, "I did a terrible thing, a terrible, terrible thing." Most biographers agree that this was the last time Marilyn saw Kris. However, Fred Lawrence Guiles writes that when in New York, Marilyn continued to have sessions with Dr. Kris. In any event, either because she had not had time to rewrite her January 1961 will, or because she had rebuilt some trust with her psychoanalyst, Kris was one of the main beneficiaries in Marilyn's will.
When Kris died, she bequeathed this legacy to a child therapy center at the London Tavistock Center Clinic, originally founded by Anna Freud. This money has been used to fund the Monroe Young Family Centre.
**(Text from The Marilyn Encyclopedia
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