Adelheid Lucy Koch, née Schwalbe, (1896 – July 29, 1980) was a German-Brazilian psychoanalyst, who pioneered the institutionalization of psychoanalysis in Brazil.
She did training analysis under Otto Fenichel with Salomea Kempner as her supervisor.
Told by Ernest Jones of Brazilian interest in psychoanalysis, she left Germany for Brazil in 1936.
She worked as a training analyst, supervisor and teacher for a group around Durval Marcondes.
An article on 'Omnipotence and sublimation' was based on Kleinian object relations theory: strong tendencies to omnipotence could be constructive if accompanied by equivalent ability to sublimate, and introjection of an object perceived as mostly good'; however, an object perceived as bad would promote destructive omnipotence and delay the ability to sublimate.