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Marie Jenny Emilie Aubry (néeWeiss; 8 October 1903 – 21 January 1987) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Born in to the Parisian middle-class elite, to Paul Louis Weiss (1867–1945) and Jeanne Félicie Weiss (née Javal; 1871–1956), the daughter ofLouis Émile Javal. She was the sister of the famous suffragetteLouise Weiss.^[1] Aubry was among the first female doctors to qualify in France.^[2] Having worked with theResistance during the war, she discoveredpsychoanalysis throughAnna Freud in 1948, and trained as a psychoanalyst under the supervision ofJacques Lacan,^[3] with whom she developed a friendship and whom she followed through the various splits of the French psychoanalytic movement.

Aware too of the work of such figures asRené Spitz andJohn Bowlby,^[4] Aubry began to specialise in the treatment of institutionalised children, exploring the role of maternal deprivation in their symptomatology.^[5] Her bookEnfance Abandonée was published in 1953, and her collected papers in 2003.^[6]

Jenny Aubry was the mother ofÉlisabeth Roudinesco. Through her mother she was the niece ofAlice Anna Weiller (née Javal) and the cousin ofPaul-Louis Weiller, the son of Alice andLazare Weiller.^[7][8]

• Jenny, Aubry; Élisabeth, Roudinesco (2010).Psychanalyse des enfants séparés : études cliniques (1952-1986). Paris: Flammarion.ISBN 978-2-207-25480-6.*
• Jenny, Aubry (1983).Enfance abandonnée. La carence de soins maternels. Paris: Scarabee and Cie.ISBN 2-86722-005-X.

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