Alexander Friedmann (medical doctor)

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Alexander Friedmann (born September 12, 1948 in Bucharest ; died March 30, 2008 in Vienna ) was a Romanian - Austrian specialist in psychiatry and neurology .

Life

Friedmann grew up in Vienna and, after completing his medical studies, completed his specialist training at the Vienna University Clinic for Psychiatry from 1977 to 1984. He then worked as a senior physician, later as an assistant professor, at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the Vienna General Hospital and the Medical University of Vienna .

Act

Friedmann had been a member of the board of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Vienna since 1983 and chairman of its social commission since 1989.

In cooperation between the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde and the municipality of Vienna, he set up a special outpatient clinic as chairman of the ESRA association from 1994 , which he managed until the end. This offers survivors of Nazi persecution and their descendants comprehensive help, advice and treatment, supports Jewish immigrants who came to Austria in the past decades in their integration process and serves as a psychosocial center for the Jewish population of Vienna.

The Jewish Vocational Training Center (JBBZ), which he also co-founded in 1998, is a unique educational institution in Europe for preparing immigrant people of all ages for a successful start in professional life.

Friedmann was also a court-sworn expert for neurology, psychiatry, psychotherapeutic medicine and since 1995 a member of the ethics commission of the city of Vienna. For his achievements he was awarded the Golden Sign of Merit of the Republic of Austria .

Scientific activity and teaching

Friedmann's great scientific and clinical interest was in a special area of ​​social psychiatry, transcultural psychiatry . He dealt in detail with the treatment of traumas that were caused by experiences in the war, in concentration camps or by torture and which later became pathological.

He was in the “Psychotraumatology” working group of the “Austrian Society for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy” and the “Austrian Society for General and Special Psychotraumatology”, which he co-founded, worked and organized a. a. several meetings on this topic.

Publications (selection)

  • with Elvira Glück, David Vyssoki (Ed.): Surviving the Shoah - and afterwards. Long-term consequences of persecution from a scientific point of view . Picus-Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85452-426-9 .
  • with Peter Hofmann, Brigitte Lueger-Schuster, Maria Steinbauer, David Vyssoki (eds.): Psychotrauma. Post-traumatic stress disorder . Verlag Springer, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-211-83882-1 .

literature

  • Obituary in Die Gemeinde , April 2008, p. 3.
  • Heinz Katschnig: Dr. Alexander Friedmann. In: Psychiatry and Psychotherapy. 4, 2008, p. 81, doi : 10.1007 / s11326-008-0020-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Friedmann, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2008
Place of death Vienna