Lola Hoffmann (Helena Jacoby) (March 19, 1904 – April 30, 1988) was a German Jewish physiologist and psychiatrist. Early life and education Lola (Helena) was born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, to a well-off German-speaking Lutheran family of Jewish origin. Her father participated in the movement led by Alexander Kerenski. He was persecuted by the Bolsheviks, who occupied Latvia following the First World War. When Lola was 15, her family moved to Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. Lola enrolled in the School of Medicine of Freiburg and stayed when her family decided to return to Riga. Career Physiology After finishing her thesis on the suprarenal glands of rats, Hoffmann left Freiburg and moved to Berlin, where she became an assistant of Paul Trendelenburg, who specialised in hormones. In 1931, she moved to Chile with her lover Franz Hoffman. During her first year in Chile, she dedicated herself to learning Spanish and to immersing herself in Chilean culture. She then worked at the Bacteriological Institute as her husband's assistant at the newly founded Institute of Physiology of the University of Chile. They researched, published papers, and travelled together. She worked at the Institute of Physiology from 1938 to 1951. Psychiatry After more than 20 years of experimental work in physiology, Lola started losing enthusiasm for her work, eventually falling into depression. While traveling to Europe for a trip with her husband, she read a book called The Psychology of C. G. Jung, by Jolande Jacoby. After arriving in Zurich, she contacted the author of the book, Yolanda Jacoby. Their talks, along with other experiences, led her to make a decision to abandon physiology and become a psychiatrist. When she returned to Chile, she began achieving her goal of becoming a psychiatrist. At first she worked alone, annotating and analyzing her dreams. She then started work at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Chile. In her explorative studies she started practicing “autogenic training,” a method of self-hypnosis developed by the German neurologist, Johannes Heinrich Schultz. She was also inspired by the work of Ernst Kretschmer. After 5 years working in the Psychiatric Clinic, Hoffman felt the need for more in-depth study. She applied for a fellowship in the Psychiatric Clinic of Tübingen, Germany. She remained in Tübingen for one year and then moved to Zurich for another year, where she attended the last conferences given by Jung. The ideas