Hedda Bolgar

Hedda Bolgar
Born	(1909-08-19)August 19, 1909 Switzerland
Died
Alma mater	PhD, University of Vienna, 1934, Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Occupation	Psychoanalyst
Employer	Mt. Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, The Wright Institute of Los Angeles, (1970-), Hedda Bolgar Psychotherapy Clinic, (1974-)
Spouse(s)	Herbert Bekker
Parent(s)	Elek Bolgar, Elza Stern

Hedda Bolgar (August 19, 1909 – May 13, 2013) was a psychoanalyst in Los Angeles, California, who maintained an active practice when she was over 100 years old. She saw patients four days a week at age 102.

She studied at the University of Vienna. "Bolgar was one of the last living psychologists to have attended Freud's lectures in Vienna, Austria."

She received an Outstanding Oldest Worker Award in 2011 in Washington, D.C., at age 102.

She appeared in the documentary The Beauty of Aging.

Quotes

• "I've lived through revolutions, famine, war. Things like that."
• "There was a war, and I had vanilla ice cream for lunch."
• "I started a lot of things at 65."
• "The day the Nazis came to Vienna, I left. I had been very active in anti-Nazi politics and it really wasn't safe for me to stay. They came in on a Sunday and I decided Sunday was a good time to leave because on Monday they'd start working. They'd probably find the person who wrote those terrible articles about them pretty quickly."
• "Women must be agents of their own lives. They must not be dependent on someone else to provide for them."

See also

• List of people from Los Angeles
• Lists of centenarians

External links

• Video and tribute to Hedda Bolgar
• Hedda Bolgar Psychotherapy Clinic, Wright Institute Los Angeles