Etkind's research in Russia in the 1990s showed that she did not "disappear" after leaving Western Europe, but continued as an active clinician and researcher. The publication in 2003 of a selection of essays about her under the title "Sabina Spielrein, Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis" stimulate interest in her as an original thinker. The first scholarly biography of her in German, by Sabine Richebächer placed her relationship with Jung in its proper context of a lifelong career of involvement with psychoanalysis and psychology.